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It depends on what you mean by merger, but two scenarios are covered in the Technical funding guide.
There is no guidance on what you have asked for as you may be required to negotiate a new total price but in practice you need to know if this would take the total funding over the CAP you can only do this if you can confirm the actual duration with the previous employer and the planned duration.
The employer chooses a new provider to deliver the apprenticeship.
- The employer and the new provider will negotiate a new total price for the remainder of the programme, and record this in the ILR and, if applicable, the apprenticeship service.
- We will account for the earnings from the first provider before we apply the funding band maximum to calculate the earnings for the second provider. The total contributions from an employer's account across both providers will not be more than the funding band maximum for a single apprenticeship.
Provider Mergers
- If you have merged with another provider, resulting in continuing apprentices being returned under a new UKPRN, but with other data such as start dates and negotiated prices remaining the same, then we need you to record the information in a specific way so we can calculate the correct earnings.
- This is because in this scenario the latest total negotiated price includes some earnings which were generated previously against a different UKPRN. This is funded differently from cases where the apprentice changes between unrelated providers, and there is a new negotiated price which does not include earnings from the earlier UKPRN. The 2 scenarios can look very similar in an ILR, so we ask you to use the Pre-Merger UKPRN (PMUKPRN) field to distinguish them.
- To receive the correct funding for your apprentices for whom the UKPRN has changed due to a provider merger and for whom the price has not been renegotiated, you must follow the instructions in the ILR provider manual section called ‘A cohort of learners transfers to a new provider (due to a merger or conversion to academy)’. You must also record the Pre-merger UKPRN (PMUKPRN field in the ILR) for every apprentice that has changed UKPRN and whose price has not been re-negotiated because of a provider merger.
- If prices were re-negotiated as part of a provider merger, you should not use the PMUKPRN field in the ILR, as this will cause us to calculate your funding incorrectly.
Laura Weston
New provider - recording of TNP
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Can anyone help me with information on exactly what needs to be recorded for the TNP for a merger on the ILR? Would we need to record the funding difference taking into account the payments already made on the previous UKPRN or keep the TNP the same as originally recorded? I cannot find any clear guidance on this.