Paul Blackshaw
ILR, QAR and funding rules specialist with 13+ years experience. Providing ITPs and colleges with consultancy services to primarily support their Apprenticeship operations and management.
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Entering Learning Data - Queries
Thought it might be useful to have all the ELD queries in one place, so please share your findings here: 1. ELD will only allow importing an XML file to 2025/26 if the file name includes 2526. 2...
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Functional Skills priorities for level 2 apprenticeships
I'm currently helping a provider to challenge an ESFA auditor's view that apprentices without prior attainment of level 1 Maths and/or English, undertaking a level 2 apprenticeship, will need to st...
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New GCSE grade equivalencies for level 1 functional skills
Interested to know how providers are planning to retrospectively apply the 2024/25 funding rule 38.1 that states GCSE grades D to G or 3 to 1 will be equivalent to level 1 functional skills and wil...
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Apprenticeship 'Planned End Date' is changing in 2024/25
The published ILR Specification for 2024/25 is defining the Learning Planned End Date for apprenticeship standards as including "both the training and end point assessment period for continuing lea...
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Change of senior management personnel
Hi, One of my Apprenticeship provider clients has not yet been assigned a designated point of contact at the ESFA but they wish to notify the ESFA of changes in their senior management team, as per...
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OTJT hours calculator
Just curious to know if anyone else has noticed that the ESFA's minimum OTJT hours calculator appears to round the planned duration to the nearest whole week and therefore produces some unexpected ...