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Darren Hands
Level 2 Functional Skills
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I think I know the answer to this but the Functional Skills team here and one of my directors have asked me to confirm something one way or another and I'm struggling to find anything in black and white written down.
The situation is this.
We have a learner who was on a Level 2 Apprenticeship. He only needed to "attempt" functional skills English at Level 2, which he took and did "fail". This was enough though for him to be able to do his EPA which he passed.
He now wants to go on to do a Level 3 Apprenticeship where he will need to go on and achieve a Level 2 Functional Skill in English. They (the F/Skills team) are saying we should be able to claim the Level 2 aim a second time (and get paid a second time for it). My belief is that as we have already claimed the funding for this learning aim (on the Level 2 apprenticeship) we cannot claim funding a second time but we could enter it as a non-ILR aim and fund it ourselves or get the employer to cover the costs.
As I say, I can't see anything to confirm if this is the case. Can anyone point me in the direction to the ESFA's rules which I can then show to confirm one way or another?
Thanks
Darren
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Ruth Canham-James
You can claim funding again as long as you do all the delivery again. If you're reducing delivery because or previous study, you'd need to reduce the proportion of funding. If you're only doing the assessment, you can't claim anything.
Darren Hands
Level 2 Functional Skills
Created
I think I know the answer to this but the Functional Skills team here and one of my directors have asked me to confirm something one way or another and I'm struggling to find anything in black and white written down.
The situation is this.
We have a learner who was on a Level 2 Apprenticeship. He only needed to "attempt" functional skills English at Level 2, which he took and did "fail". This was enough though for him to be able to do his EPA which he passed.
He now wants to go on to do a Level 3 Apprenticeship where he will need to go on and achieve a Level 2 Functional Skill in English. They (the F/Skills team) are saying we should be able to claim the Level 2 aim a second time (and get paid a second time for it). My belief is that as we have already claimed the funding for this learning aim (on the Level 2 apprenticeship) we cannot claim funding a second time but we could enter it as a non-ILR aim and fund it ourselves or get the employer to cover the costs.
As I say, I can't see anything to confirm if this is the case. Can anyone point me in the direction to the ESFA's rules which I can then show to confirm one way or another?
Thanks
Darren