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Well, the learner has met CoF for 25/26 as they've been on a relevant aim for more than 42 days. They don't stop being CoF compliant in-year just because they're achieved early and you PLANNED all of the hours. The only exception would be a whole COHORT of learners stopping early and the classes are no longer happening.
If anything, their continuing is a quality issue, you'd want to show Ofsted that they're continuing to improve their E&M. Replanning the hours as EEP is the obvious solution and, as it's EEP, I wouldn't have an additional aim per se, just show it on their timetable. Because the hours (as far as the ILR is concerned) aren't being returned for the individual aim, just the total for the learner and the flag to say they're meeting CoF we don't/can't show it at aim level anyway.
Yo do need to keep them in lessons to fulfill this bit of CoF:
12.3 How to record students when they achieve in yearIn instances where a student studying under the condition of funding achieves level 2 during the academic year, we do not expect the institution to amend their record confirming delivery of minimum hours or not. As the hours for either or both subjects are included in total planned hours, for these students, institutions should retain the planned hours and replace the hours previously timetabled for teaching English and/or maths with alternative activity such as work experience or pastoral support.
It's odd because that's not how planned hours usually work. The content doesn't even have to be English or maths related, so what is the purpose of making providers do this just for English and maths minimum hours? If they're already be well over band required hours, can you just reassign some pastoral stuff between March and June to count as "replacement"? We are asking teams to timetable more activity, but I'm not that involved so not what what they're doing.
Fiona Bridger
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Hi. Has anyone got any opinions/advice on the following:
What the expectations are for a 16-19 funded student who is enrolled on a level 1 functional skills (English and or Maths) qualification for the year and achieves this early, but is not ready to undertake and complete the level 2 qualification in the remaining time on the programme.
For example, level 1 FS aim:
Start date – September 2025
Planned end – June 2026
Actual end – March 2026
What are we expected to do from an ILR and CoF minimum hours perspective?
We can see the rules are clear if a student achieves the level 2 during the year, we should retain the planned hours and replace those timetabled for E&M with alternative activity, but the level 1 expectations are not clear.
If we want to carry on teaching them in preparation for progression to L2 next year, we are considering questions such as:
Should they be enrolled on a non-regulated aim
Or would participation evidence be enough to demonstrate the expectation to continue the classes?
Should it be face to face or could online, self-directed study be accepted as compliant?
And what if the student does not attend the classes arranged for them to continue working towards level 2?