Component Aims in ILR for Apprenticeships

Yes, any regulated aims that are being delivered as part of the programme should be recorded as component aims (aim type = 3) and where appropriate you should record the learning aim reference. If a non-regulated aim is being delivered as part of the programme this should also be recorded as a component aim (aim type = 3) and you'd follow the "Recording non-regulated provision" guidance here

You must as a minimum one component aim recorded in the ILR, and any actual qualification aims delivered must also be included.

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I don't fully agree Ben James. If you have a mandatory component, that you're recording as 36/105, and as a component aim, you don't also need a non-reg code. I assume Dan Hodgetts is talking about the Z00 code we are forced to include on Standards if there are no other component aims. It doesn't represent any delivery, it's just a workaround because the ESFA systems can't currently handle a Programme aim with no continuing Component aims. PSM says;

All apprenticeship programmes must be recorded with one programme aim and at least one component learning aim.

For an apprenticeship standard, if no regulated qualifications are undertaken, then you must record one of the non-regulated learning aims from Category E of the Learning Aim Class Codes’ document (refer to Section 15 Related Links to Documents and Information).

You're absolutely right Ruth Canham-James, for some reason I think my brain ignored the leading Z and assumed Dan was asking if he should add the learning aim refs/QANs where there's a main aim and a supplementary component aim. 

Thanks all

So what i ended up doing was:

ZPROG (Main Aim)

Z000XXXX (Component Aim - Non regulated/Related Aim)

600XXXXX (Component Aim - (Mandatory) Diploma Qualification)

600XXXXXX (Functional Skills - Qualification)

So based on your advice i could have done away with the Z000 code in this instance as there is a Regulated/Mandatory qual included also.

FYI i submitted the ILR and didnt get any errors so cant see that it did any harm

Yes, you could have done away with the Z00 code, but no, it won't error.

We do it all the time. Where we have a Standard with no mandatory aim, we enrol everyone on the Z00 code as default. If they do also happen to do a Functional Skill, we don't strictly need the Z00 code, but it's more faff taking it out, so we just leave it. It's utterly meaningless, but it hasn't stopped ESFA and OfS trying to audit us over these "aims", but we just explain every time that this is not delivery and can't be audited. 

Ruth Canham-James if we recorded a diploma as a component aim of the apprenticeship (and it's non mandatory - we just offer it because the employer wants us to add it) as FM36 in 21-22, can we change it to FM99 in 22-23? Will it cause an error/rule violation? It wouldn't impact QAR though as that's attached to the ZPROG along with the funding. Am I correct in my logic here? Thanks

Melanie Aspinall We had a whole bunch of these a year or so ago. We followed the PSM rules about correcting a funding model in a closed year. Withdraw back to start date, code as a transfer, add the same aim with the same dates as the original, but unfunded (all in 22/23). The old one appears in PDSATs as "attended one day", but auditors are fine if you explain it was following PSM advice. You can't just change the funding model between years. That creates what I call a "hanging" record in 21/22 (no matching enrolment in 22/23). Even if it doesn't cause QAR issues, it's not right.

Ruth Canham-James, you're absolutely right. That's exactly what I need to do to get rid of the issue of no matching enrolment. Thank you!