Apprenticeship Service - Planned End Date

For example- the Planned Training End Date here is the planned end date of the training period (and matches the ILR - we are doing it over 13 months and then they go to Gateway) - but should this be the EPA planned end (month / year)?

It's the term 'training end' that has led me to believe this is the training period!

Learning end dates – Apprenticeship Service Support (education.gov.uk)

The employer (or the training provider on their behalf) only needs to enter the projected finish date for the whole apprenticeship in the apprenticeship service. This includes the end-point assessment period.

You are quite right though that the guidance is conflicting. Several steps in the process refer to the end date as the 'planned training end date'. It doesn't really matter though to be honest. The monthly instalments are derived from the ILR, and the data matching process doesn't look for the planned end date. 

Just be consistent, would be my advice.

Thanks Ben - I had a bit of a panic about having to amend all of the end dates on the DAS....! 

Hi, from an employers perspective, the end date does impact our internal reporting and for that reason it is important to have consistency across all training providers.  Some use overall end date and some use end date of practical period - it is the overall end date that should be used on DAS, as per the guidance.  Not suggesting that DAS needs amending (what a job that would be!) but going forward, adopting the guidance and using overall end date would certainly make data management easier.