Study Programme - Additional Hours/Tuition Fund

NO! We're definitely getting BOTH for 22/23. Details of 22/23 Tuition fund here:

Coronavirus (COVID-19) 16 to 19 tuition fund guidance 2022 to 2023 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

(confusingly it says that it will be automatically rolled over for those who had it this year, but I'm sure we had to opt in again?)

Main difference I think is that the extra 40 hours:

a. have to be for everyone, regardless of GCSE E&M grades or deprivation

b. can be delivered in "normal" group sizes, rather than small group

So, it's planning a bigger programme for all and then, on top of that, continued small group support for E&M and deprived learners.

No sign of the guidance for the report (which we won't submit until END of 22/23 anyway) yet.

HI Steve if you had tuition fund this year you have to opt out for next, which I doubt anyone would do.

Question for me is then do you just add the extra 40 hours onto the original 60 GLH for every learner on maths?

Then if you want that learner on 1-2-1 tuition fund you also add on the hours too?

regards

Chris 
 

(was sure we had to log in to a thing and *say* we didn't want to opt out, but here we are...)

I guess my question is what about all your learners who don't do maths? Although there is a focus on maths, there's no hard and fast rules on what we MUST use the extra hours for, adding it to Voc would seem perfectly reasonable to me.

But, yes, whatever the extra 40 is planned for, the 1-2-1/small group is on top after that. We're fortunate that *virtually everyone* is eligible, so we're looking to timetable it in from the start (not least so we can spend it all next year!!!).

My brain is exploding trying to understand how this is easing "the administrative burden".

I guess from an audit perspective you would need allocated the "additional hours" into a seperate session register to show that you have delivered it? Rather than just lump an extra 40 hours to a planned GLH of 60 for Maths?

Thanks 

Chris 

Nah, I'd definitely go for just lumping them on. What they're going to do, I understand, is look at our average hours for FT in 21/22 and then, at the end of next year, look at the same to see how much it's gone up by and if it's not 40 we have to write a commentary explaining why.

For audit, you just need to show they've got 580+.

Yeah the agency has confirmed today that there is no need to add in any additional aims like we have done for 1-2-1 support. 

They're basically telling us to spend it or lose it on band 4 and 5's  

Good afternoon,

I hope it is ok to jump onto this thread, this is the first time I have used this support tool. I am looking at the additional hours we are offering to students who meet the eligibility for the tuition fund. I am aware there is a national monitoring code we assign to the ILR however I am not clear if the additional hours used from the tuition fund should be added to the PLH/EEP hours on the ILR for the normal study programme, Also the impact this has if the student moved funding bands due to the increased hours assigned. Or should I record this separately to the PLH and EEP hours which determine the funding band? (Post 16 Funding) I am finding the guidance a little unclear in this area.

Any help is appreciated.

Providing you have opted in, coding the learners in the ILR as NLMs will give you the payments of £100 per instance for students in bands 4 and above and £60 for students on 1-3s. 

ILR Specification 2023 to 2024: Attribute: National learner monitoring (submit-learner-data.service.gov.uk)

You shouldn't include the planned hours in the ILR though as you would be potentially pushing up the learners into the next funding band which would cause you a massive issue at audit. 

Thanks 

Thank you for your support, very much appreciated and very helpful