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So, ESFA have very specific thoughts on this (which I discussed at length with them, don't necessarily agree, but this is what they told me). As far as they're concerned a learner has only "completed" when they stop doing any of the EPA, pass or fail. So, in your example here, you should leave them as 1&8 until they finish doing their resits and use the date of the last resit as the AchDate (at which point they'll generate the completion payment, everything else being equal).
Your only slight risk is if they *say* they're going to do the resit now but then (post-R14) disappear into the ether. In that case you'd have to record the AchDate back in 22/23 (because that's the last thing they did) and you would lose the completion payment...
(this is why I only semi-jokingly think that everyone should do their EPAs in October/November/December so you've got the rest of the year to sort them out!!!)
At this time of year, I have stern conversations with the Apps team about anyone sitting at 2&8 in last year (and not achieved in this year), especially the ones with end dates before June. I still think we lose a completion payment most years because the resit never happened after all, and we don't find out until after R14.
Dean Cox
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Hello,
If you have a learner who has taken all elements of EPA, but failed a section, would you update the ILR right away to show the 'completion' but 'no achievement' or would you wait to see if they retake any elements to subsequently achieve, or maybe even fail again and give up there?
We have a learner who 'failed' in the 22-23 funding year and is awaiting a re-sit, the info has not been processed through our platform and therefore is not on the ILR yet. I am mindful that if it is not listed as failed before R14 we would lose the completion payment. What if the learner re-takes in the 23-24 funding year is it acceptable to use that as the achievment date whether they pass or fail (again)?
Thanks.