We've completed the completions research and the next stage is to look into the barriers to completion.
Our initial findings suggest it's very much a mixed bag, everything from a decision to leave the trade to pursue something else, to family circumstances, to money issues. The largest single category of reasons for them to exit the apprenticeship system seems to be “other”.
We have a plan in place to undertake more research into that, but that work hasn't been completed yet.