Terms & conditions
Entries for the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers and Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers for 2022 are subject to the following terms and conditions:
- Entries will only be accepted when submitted via the official online entry form before the entry deadline of 5pm on Friday 25th March 2022.
- Entries cannot be amended after the entry deadline has passed.
- The organisers cannot accept any responsibility for loss or damage of any entry. All entry forms will be acknowledged.
- All entries will be treated in the strictest confidence.
- The Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers and the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers are limited to employers in England. Entries from employers in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands are not eligible unless they refer to apprenticeships that have taken place in England.
- The minimum entry requirements for employers entering the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers are that the employer must have a workforce of 250 employees or more and employ a minimum of 25 apprentices. The minimum entry requirements for employers entering the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers are that the employer must have a workforce of 10-249 employees and employ a minimum of 3 apprentices.
- All entries will be vetted and verified for accuracy before being assessed and scored.
- All entrants will be required to take part in a follow-up data check by email or telephone as part of the vetting and verification process.
- Entries may be edited by the organisers to correct any erroneous data or administrative information provided.
- Should it come to light that there are issues, whether ethical or factual, pertaining to any entry, the organisers reserve the right to withdraw the entry.
- The one hundred entries from larger employers (with 250 or more employees) with the highest scores will be ranked to form the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers for 2022. The fifty entries from SME employers (with 10-249 employees) with the highest scores will be ranked to form the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers for 2022.
- The organiser's decisions will be final and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into.
- Information supplied in entries that are ranked in the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers and the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers may be published or announced at the launch event for the rankings and in subsequent publicity associated with the rankings. Commercially sensitive information will not be shared.
- The organisers reserve the right to cancel or amend the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers and the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers and these terms and conditions without notice for any event that is outside of the organiser's reasonable control.
- It is the responsibility of entrants to keep themselves informed as to any changes to the terms and conditions of entry. The latest version of the Terms and Conditions will always be available on the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers website.
The organiser of the Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers and the Top 50 SME Apprenticeship Employers is the Department for Education.