Staffordshire Police has launched a pilot apprenticeship scheme aimed at helping staff develop practical skills in the use of artificial intelligence across the force.

West Midlands Ambulance Service is marking 16 years of apprenticeships during National Apprenticeship Week, highlighting the role vocational routes continue to play in building and sustaining the Trust’s workforce.

To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2026, three LFB firefighters, all former apprentices, spoke to Kit Salt, Head of Assessment, SFJ Awards about their experiences of being an apprentice and reflect on how their apprenticeships have helped them to develop further on in their careers.

As the Met Office seeks to ensure its information is available in a form that people all over the UK can use, it has introduced the Digital Accessibility Apprenticeship and is now celebrating the first apprentice who has completed the scheme.

The UK’s first ambulance pharmacy technician apprentice is just days away from completing her registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

An apprenticeship in the emergency services can be transformational for those that undertake them. Not only does it provide a platform to a career in a true vocation, more often than not an apprenticeship sets individuals on course for a lifelong love of learning, turbocharging their career progression.

In a week long celebration of apprenticeships, this year’s theme of ‘Skills for LIfe’ shines a light on the positive impact that apprenticeships make to individuals, organisations like the emergency services and the wider economy.

A steering group led by ambulance services in England is conducting a review of the Level 4 Associate Ambulance Practitioner Apprenticeship Standard.

Building on a discussion in a recent Emergency Services Times webinar about the government’s plans for apprenticeships, David Higham, Managing Director at SFJ Awards looks at how the creation of Skills England and a renewed approach to growth offers an opportunity for the emergency services in leadership development and wider skills development.

Greater Manchester Police has been commended for its apprenticeship training programme, following a recent Ofsted inspection.