Co-invest Report

You can't tell the difference, and it's making my job really difficult. Several of us have been asking ESFA if we can have a third Apprenticeship Contract Type (ACT) for non-levy payers in the DAS, particularly for this reason. Please raise this with ESFA as well if you would find it useful, as it will add weight to our argument if more people ask for it.

If you had a Non Levy using DAS (ACT1) does it matter if you can't distinguish them from usual Levy employers - wouldn't you be invoicing them anyway? Just wondering if i have missed something obvious, its not a report i usually deal with!

On another note, do you know what it means when the Apprenticeship Contract Type column is blank i.e no 1 or 2 displayed?

It matters very much because I need to know which are the 5% and which are insufficient funds. We don't invoice the non-levy employers on a monthly basis, we mostly charge up front. Plus, I already know about those. We've already invoiced on day one, Finance are always aware and chasing, so I can pretty much ignore those. The levy paying insufficient funds ones are a whole different, much more complicated story. I want to be able to pick those out to deal with separately.

Ruth Canham-James Hi Ruth I was just wondering if you have now found an easier way to work with the co-investment report?  I am just looking at the report for R10 and can see that a non-levy org is showing on the report with a co-investment fee being flagged despite the learner being under 19 and the employer having <50 employees.  I wouldn't have thought these learners would pull through if they are coded correctly on the ILR (which I have checked and they are)?

Sadly no, I still find it extremely time consuming to wade through. There's all sorts of stuff on that report that doesn't belong there, so it's hard to see the wood for the trees.