Additional Learning Support - LSF

Hi Christine Gregory, i dont have an answer for you but we are wondering the exact same thing!  The guidelines are as grey as ever!  

Sam Hawkins They certainly are and when you email them they only quote the guidance to you - if the guidance was clear we wouldn't be emailing them :)

Christine Gregory, I know!!  We are going to gather the evidence we currently save for our learners and ask the question directly to our Account Manager, who can then go away and find out if its sufficient!  At least we can then say we have done all we can to find out if we are being compliant for audit. 

Hi Christine Gregory & Sam Hawkins hope you're both well. I know this is an old topic, but wondered if I could pick your brain. Do you still use Cognassist? We currently complete our own needs assessment and then provide the support ourselves once we've completed a reasonable adjustment plan. 

Have you had much success with finding out how well received cognassist is with auditors? We wouldn't necessarily need Cognassist to provide support modules for our apprentices, but just use it as a tool to screen for learning differences.

Hi Michael Willacy, we havent actually used Cognassist that was Christine. What i will say is that we have just launched an Initial Screening form for ALL our learners whether a recognised ALN is present or not.  This form asks some key questions on official diagnosis they may have, or how school or college was for them and some key questions around their previous learning styles.  We hope that this will be a great starting point to open up conversations that may never have been had before.  We then follow this up with our coaches logging any extra support they are offering the learner and evidence of that support (on a monthly basis) so we can then make our claims retrospectively each month.    We have only just launched so we will gauge how this goes.  My manager was recently on an Webinar and they talked about the ALN/LSF changes and she said the support we have put in place was almost replicated in that webinar, so that at least makes us feel like we are on the right track!  HTH