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# Start a work-based apprenticeship

Find an apprenticeship vacancy and complete both employment and approved-training agreements.

Stable family ID
  `start-work-based-apprenticeship`
Domain
  Finding work and unemployment
Enclosing process
  Enter fair and supported work
Population gate
  complete
Specialist review
  required
Useful terms
  become an apprentice; apprenticeship employment route
Example situations
  A person wants to enter paid work through an apprenticeship.

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## Official source handoffs

- Become an apprentice — Department for Education; England; observed 2026-08-08.
- Finding a job in Scotland — Scottish Government; Scotland; observed 2026-08-08.
- Employment support in Wales — Welsh Government; Wales; observed 2026-08-08.
- Employment in Northern Ireland — Northern Ireland Executive; Northern Ireland; observed 2026-08-08.

## Complete governed family record

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        ],
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          "Original summaries and links only; no upstream source response or snapshot is retained.",
          "A national discovery handoff locates the current route but does not establish a leaf rule, eligibility condition, cost or deadline.",
          "Jurisdictions, providers and exceptions remain separate even where labels are similar.",
          "Specialist review is required before legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claims are release-grade."
        ],
        "narrative": {
          "body": "# Start a work-based apprenticeship\n\n## Place in the process\n\nThis topic sits within **Enter fair and supported work** in the **Finding work and unemployment** life-course\ndomain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first\nsafe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.\n\n## What this family covers\n\nFind an apprenticeship vacancy and complete both employment and approved-training agreements.\n\nThe ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow\nthe responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the\nconfirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.\n\n## If the ordinary route does not fit\n\nIf a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals\nan urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's\nexception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.\n\nWhere a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.\n\n## Official routes\n\n- [England: Become an apprentice](https://www.gov.uk/become-apprentice)\n- [Scotland: Finding a job in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/working-jobs/finding-a-job)\n- [Wales: Employment support in Wales](https://www.gov.wales/employment-support)\n- [Northern Ireland: Employment in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/employment)\n\nThese are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a\nhandoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,\ndeadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.\n\n## What may follow\n\nThe result can feed the next family in **Enter fair and supported work**, another enclosing\nprocess, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the\nordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.\n\n## Review status\n\nThis record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review\nbefore any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is\ndescribed as release-grade.",
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          }
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        "title": "Start a work-based apprenticeship",
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