Neil Briggs

Condition of Funding query - withdrawn learners

Created

None

Hi all,

Hoping someone can help me with something I should probably know but need to get straight in my head.

U19 learners who withdraw beyond the qualifying period but whose english/maths attendance was low/non-existent so have withdrawn that element before the qualifying period - these learners now don't meet condition of funding.  How do we deal with these?  Is this a case for using the tolerance? Or should this be dealt with in another way?

Thanks in advance.

Neil

Replies

No one has replied to this post.


Chris Roberts

These just make up part of your 5% tolerance for this year Neil, soon to be 2.5% next year. As long as you're recording your start and end dates against the attendance I'm not sure there is anything you can do to avoid them. 

Students must pass a qualifying period for each maths and English qualification before it counts. The qualifying period is:

  • 6 weeks for a qualification with a planned length of 24 weeks or more
  • 2 weeks for a qualification with a planned length of less than 24 weeks

Neil Briggs

Many thanks Chris, that backs up what I was hoping someone would say.

Quick follow-up - I know we can specifically add learners in the ILR to the tolerance, but am I right in thinking that the tolerance is applied anyway to cover instances like my original example?  Or would we be expected to identify such learners and manually add them to the tolerance?

Chris Roberts

If you look at your month end reports from the DFE, there is one called Maths and English report. This will highlight any learners not meeting COF in year. 

Neil Briggs

Many thanks, yes we check this one monthly so looks like I'm on the right track.