Gary Petley

OTJ Hours for pre August 2022 Start

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Hi,

   As far as I know a formula for calculating the OTJ hours was never provided just the two examples below by the ESFA. 

  If the calculator we use works for these two values then is is correct for audit? Would an auditor pick up on being one hour under their formula - who is using the correct formula when none was provided?

  Who ever wrote the example lived in a 364 day world, unlike the rest of us. The problem with the example is that 12 months is 52.14 week or 52.28 weeks (if a leap year). So you will get difference in formulas depending if you use the 12 months or the 52 weeks!?

  Cheers

 

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Steve Hewitt

As long as you're consistent and you haven't done anything daft like using actual holiday rather than stat and the value is at least 278, I can't see them arguing over an hour.

But, you're right, a proper official single calculation would be useful...

Martin West

It is for you to include the correct number of weeks in the calculation, I do not think an auditor would be so pedantic to expect the number of weeks to be other than whole weeks in the calculation for the minimum OTJ hours.

The minimum OTJ hours are not recorded on the ILR, it is planned OTJ hours from the training plan which would normally be above the minimum calculated.

HTH

Ben Cowdery

Remember that there is the ESFA Calculator...although using the formula correctly to arrive at the number of weeks to input manually is still necessary I guess.  To be safe, rounding up is the key maybe?