Rowena Hunter

Calculating planned end date

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Good evening all. 

We have a query around planned end dates.   Our apprenticeship is 18 months and the learner would need all that time to complete the hours required (there is roughly 530 hours in the plan).  However, if I am reading it correctly, we need to minus 8.4 weeks for statutory leave.  That means at best, our apprentice would be left with 69.81 weeks (16.06 months) to do the same amount of hours.  Taking off almost 2 months seems like we are setting them up to fail from the beginning.  Are we not looking at this correctly?

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Martin West

It looks like you are confusing the minimum OTJ training hours calculation with the delivery duration you require for the standard. If you intended to deliver the 530 hours training at 6 hours per week in the training plan would need a duration of 99 weeks with a minimum OTJ hours of 530 and actual ILR OTJ hours of 530 but at 7.6 hours per week this would reduce to the 18 month overall duration with a minimum OTJ hours of 418 and actual ILR OTJ hours of 530.

You derive the duration first from your training plan remembering that the duration in the standard is only typical and actual duration can be more or less than this, you then calculate the minimum OTJ hours from this.

HTH

Rowena Hunter

Thank you Martin, that makes much more sense now!