
Levy & Apprenticeships Advisory

Overview
We design bespoke training solutions and modular, levy-funded learning tailored to your organisation’s needs.
We help you turn Apprenticeship Levy funds into recruitment pipelines, workforce capability and measurable business growth.
Every year, over £3 billion in levy funds expire unused, not because employers don’t value skills, but because they lack tailored pathways, bandwidth, or strategic support to deploy them effectively.
Roman Training solves this by designing custom skills ecosystems, from bitesize modular learning to full workforce academies, ensuring your levy delivers real operational and financial outcomes.
Why Employers Choose Roman Training
We help L&D teams achieve their goals, use the levy, upskill the workforce, improve retention and drive business performance.
The new Growth & Skills Levy offers unprecedented flexibility, yet 4 in 10 large employers report they cannot manage or deploy their levy effectively.
Internal teams are busy, provider management is complex, and compliance expectations are rising.
Roman acts as your strategic partner, enabling you to:
- Spend more of your levy strategically
- Build capability where it matters
- Strengthen loyalty and retention
- Improve productivity and workforce outcomes
We make the levy work for the business, not the other way around.
Levy Planning & Workforce Strategy
We design bespoke, end-to-end training ecosystems that future-proof your organisation.
With more than 50% of UK organisations saying their training does not align with business goals, Roman closes the gap by designing a fully tailored levy strategy that delivers:
- Recruitment pipelines that reduce hiring pressure
- A more capable and agile workforce
- Leadership and supervisory progression
- Stronger retention and employee loyalty
- Improved operational outcomes
- Demonstrable social value delivery
Your organisation receives the Growth & Skills Levy Workforce Blueprint™, a full strategic plan covering forecasting, pathway design, modular learning and ROI modelling.
Apprenticeship Programme Design & Delivery
Custom apprenticeship pathways shaped around your roles and performance priorities.
A structured development route increases employee retention by up to 50%, and apprenticeships remain one of the UK’s most effective ways to build in-house capability.
Roman designs and delivers tailored programmes that:
- Build strong frontline capability
- Progress internal talent into higher-level roles
- Strengthen leadership pipelines
- Close specific skill gaps across the business
- Align learning outcomes directly to operational KPIs
All delivery meets Ofsted and ESFA requirements, giving employers total compliance confidence.
Foundation Apprenticeships & Pre-Job Academies
Your branded recruitment academy, producing job-ready talent aligned to your culture and roles.
With 72% of employers reporting difficulty recruiting job-ready candidates, Roman builds academies that fix this problem at source.
Our tailored programmes:
- Prepare new hires for the workplace
- Teach essential behaviours and employability skills
- Develop role-specific readiness
- Produce confident, job-ready cohorts
- Feed directly into your apprenticeships and internal progression routes
This approach dramatically reduces early turnover and improves recruitment outcomes.
Operational Intelligence & Workforce Dashboards
Real-time insight into training impact, linked directly to retention, recruitment and productivity.
Organisations with strong learning analytics are 3 times more likely to improve business performance.
Roman builds dashboards that give you immediate visibility of:
- Apprentice progress
- Off-the-job compliance
- Workforce capability trends
- Provider performance
- Skills gaps and outcomes
- ROI and retention correlations
Your leaders gain instant clarity on how training is transforming your workforce, at the click of a button.
Your Apprenticeship Levy should be transforming your workforce, not expiring unused.
Roman Training gives you bespoke design, modular delivery and complete compliance confidence.


