I feel your pain, my son signed up to a two year plumbing apprenticeship after the first year he got sacked by the company and he just cant find another company to take him on, it’s at the point where they will throw him off the course because he hasn’t got a placement, I spoke to the college to see if he could swap to the full time plumbing course but they said the funds had been allocated to his apprenticeship. I wouldn’t mind but the companies that seem to take apprentices on just use them as cheap labourers (£ 3.90 an hour). I’m sure there are some good ones.
My advice is step in and speak to the college tomorrow, ours has been a pain to deal with but part of my sons problem was his own stupid fault anyway.
Good luck.