Babington to work with Davies to ensure continuity of learning for apprentices following strategy announcement

Ensuring continuity and learner support

LONDON, UK – 7^th September 2023 – Babington, one of the UK’s foremost funded learning providers, today announced that it has signed an agreement with specialist professional services and technology business, Davies, to ensure support for apprentices across financial services and insurance standards.

Last month, Babington announced a strategic realignment programme to bring increased focus, innovation, and operational best practice to a streamlined set of core programmes across Accountancy, HR, Leadership, Data, and BACS (Business Administration and Customer Service). This programme will see the organisation simplify, strengthen, and refocus its operation to deliver market-leading learning experiences to support critical skills development aligned to market demand.

Despite the move to exit certain apprenticeship standards in financial services (insurance), property, and retail, Babington has been clear about its intention to safeguard and ensure continuity for all current and committed learners across affected programmes.

Today, and to this end, Babington announces an agreement with Davies that will see all current customers and learners in affected financial services and insurance standards offered the option to transfer and complete their learning with Davies. In addition, a number of Babington colleagues will join Davies to support the transition. Davies is one of the largest providers of apprenticeships for the insurance and financial services industries in the UK, and the learners from Babington will join over 1,500 learners currently completing similar apprenticeships with the provider.

We are extremely pleased to be working with a specialist provider like Davies to ensure all our customers and learners in the financial services and insurance space can continue their studies uninterrupted, and with the support of a truly exceptional firm. Our strategy sets a course for a genuinely exciting future for Babington and all its stakeholders, and as we realise this vision, we remain committed to ensuring that every single one of our valued customers and learners is supported all the way through to completion – including the areas we will ultimately be exiting from. Our working relationship with Davies is absolute testament to this, and we have worked closely with the Davies team to make the transfer as seamless as possible.

Mark Basham

Chief Executive Officer, Babington

We are very pleased to be welcoming the new apprentices to Davies. Our priority is to reassure all learners and their employers that their apprenticeship programmes will remain uninterrupted, with Davies providing access to all the support and materials needed for the successful completion of the courses. With a shortage of talent across our insurance & financial services sectors it is vital that we continue to develop a pipeline of diverse new talent into the industry. Supporting apprenticeships at all levels is a major factor in plugging the skills gap and improving accessibility into the financial sector.

Paul Johnson

Senior Vice President of Talent Solutions, Davies

Read the Davies press release

Media contact

Abigail Pears, Marketing & Growth Director, Babington
Email: abigail.pears@babington.co.uk

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