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I'd treat is as no new employer found, and that becomes a full withdrawal after 12 weeks of them leaving the old one, and you're already there 🙁 If they can restart at any point, you should be able to claim all funding that you didn't claim after Oct 2024. The issue is, if you let them continue to study between Oct 24 and May 25, when you do a new skills scan (which you'll have to), you might struggle to justify the full amount left in the band.
We've had similar sorts of scenario, and I keep trying to push managers for decisions on how long we let this sort of thing go on before withdrawing. Obviously we want to do our best for our students, but it can lead to huge amounts of lost funding.
Tom Bartlett
Apprentice Service Issues - Employer Appointment
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Hi All,
Bit of a unique one so please stick with this.
We have an apprentice who left their employer in October 2024. They moved to a new employer at the same time and we have been unable to get them appointed on the Apprentice Service. They have stated reasons for this but the crooks is we haven't been appointed now for several months and have circa 4k tied up in owed funding from 'on-Programme' learning and eventual EPA.
I am thinking that realistically, at present their is no feasible chance of completion therefore we should be withdrawing the learner however would this constitute a Break in Learning? Obviously this exact circumstance isn't mentioned in the rules but i am thinking we may need to now cut our losses before investing further time and money with no tangible step forward or imminent solution available.