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Some discussion on this the other week:
Further education and training providers community - ESFA audit feedback
Traditionally we've averaged the contracted hours over 46.4 weeks (52 minus stat) and then subsequently extended where it's under 30. FRM37 doesn't know the *actual* number of hours worked per week though, only which Employment Intensity Indicator has been used, so check that first.
Is this to do with the Employment Intensity (EII) field? That's the only place we record working hours in the ILR. The guidance is not all all clear on that, but we've always entered that based on average hours a week, based on actual hours worked in a year, divided by 46.4. Our term time only always end up 30+ hours anyway, so still full time, except for the fact that EII inexplicably has a band that is 31+. An apprentice could be doing an average of 30.5 hours a week, and they'd be Full Time from an OTJ point of view, but Part Time based on the EII, which could lead to an ILR error I guess? If that happened to me, I'd probably just make the EII 31+ and keep a note of why (because ESFA have weirdly used two different numbers in determining full time status).
Ian Pearce
ILR Working hours for term time only apprentices
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We work with term time only apprentices on the level 3 Teaching Assistant apprenticeship standard. On the ILR should we be entering thier actual working hours per week for the 38 weeks they work per year eg 30 per week, or basing that figure on their average working hours per week over the length of the apprenticeship which would be about 23 hours per week over the 15 months (taking the school holidays into account). We are getting FRM37 errors that I assume are perhaps down to us not using the average weekly working hours, and entering what they actually do for 38 weeks of the year. Please do confirm. Many thanks.