Local Government Association: calls for small maintained schools to be exempt
The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on the government to make small local authority (LA) maintained schools exempt (external link) from paying the Apprenticeship Levy. All employers with an annual wage bill of over £3million will have to pay to the levy at a rate of 0.5% of the total wage bill. . However, in schools where the local authority is the employer, they will have to contribute to a levy (if there is one) regardless of their individual wage-bill.