Hiring and training an intern or trainee

Offering work experience, internships or a traineeship, best practice for employers including eligibility, funding and the minimum wage.聽

Guidance and regulation

Minimum wage: work experience and internships
- Detailed guide
- 15 May 2013
- Department for Business and Trade and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Apprenticeship unit assessment guidance
- Guidance
- 16 April 2026
- Department for Work and Pensions
Providing supported internships for young people with an EHC plan
- Guidance
- 21 October 2025
- Department for Education
Providing quality internships: guidance for employers and interns
- Guidance
- 11 November 2013
- Department for Education and Department for Business, Innovation & Skills

New action to tackle unpaid internships as Government seeks to protect younger workers
- 17 July 2025
- Department for Business and Trade
- Press release
Elaine: work experience to X-ray physicist
- 8 March 2024
- Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
- Case study
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- 22 June 2023
- Department for Education, Department for Business and Trade, and HM Treasury
- Press release
Education Secretary expands UK-China internship programme
- 7 December 2017
- Department for Education
- News story
More young people to be helped into work with traineeships
- 18 November 2014
- Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Department for Education
- Press release

Approaches to Supported Internship delivery
- 27 February 2020
- Department for Education
- Research
Employer ownership pilot round 2: process evaluation
- 20 October 2017
- Department for Education
- Research