Nina Perossa

Changing Main Providers

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I was wondering if someone could help please. A learner is looking to transfer to a new main provider. Will she have to meet the minimum duration requirement (12 months) when she starts with the new provider on the same apprenticeship and with the same employer? Any advice on how to process this on the ILR and on the DAS would be much appreciated. Thank you. 

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Nina Perossa

Thank you Martin - this is very useful. 

Steve Hewitt

Hi Martin West I was looking at this the other day. It doesn't say to use the RES flag but will it not error if, say, the new provider only has six months left to do?

Martin West

See the notes from the ILR specifications:

Notes

This should be used to indicate that the learner has re-started a learning aim or apprenticeship programme.

Where a learner has already undertaken some of the learning towards an Adult Skills funded or Other Adult funded aim and is restarting it then the Funding adjustment for prior learning field should be used to reduce the amount of funding claimed as applicable.

This indicator is used in the validation of the apprenticeship minimum duration rules and so it is important that it is completed accurately.

 

Steve Hewitt

Cheers! I sort of instinctively knew that we'd have to use it, just was a bit thrown when the PSM didn't explicitly mention it...