Break in Learning - Study Programme

No! Study Progs don't have a concept of Break in Learning. Either you just leave them and they're late completers or you withdraw and start them fresh when they come back (particularly if they're not coming back til next year).

Steve Hewitt thank you for this - first year of working with Study programme following years of apps and ALL, and i couldnt see it in the guidance so thought id ask :)

The ILR does not record breaks in learning for 16-19 funded learners (Funding model 25 and 82).

If a 16-19 funded learner has agreed a leave of absence with you, then the learning aim record(s) should be left open. When the learner completes their learning aim(s), these are closed in the normal way.

If the learner withdraws from learning, then the learning aims are closed. If this learner later returns to the same programme of study, these aims can be reopened at your discretion depending upon the timing.

If a learner is absent on an agreed leave of absence at the start of a new teaching year, then you must continue to submit an ILR record for the learner and should record the planned learning hours that the learner will undertake for the year when they return to learning.

We do use BIL for AEB, ALL, HE and non-funded stuff, just not 16-19 funded.

For HE and FE Loans, it helps our finance team manage those properly. AEB it just helps avoid withdrawals sometimes. Unfunded just do it because it's in line with everyone else, and it makes no odds anyway.