Darren Hands

Former ESFA PFA Reviewer (auditor), former employee at Eat That Frog CIC, Skills Group (Skills 2 Group) and PGL Training (Plumbing) Ltd, now at Greenlight Safety & Training

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Apprenticeship Wage

I think I know the answer to this although the guidelines are a bit of a grey area but could I just ask for others thoughts on these scenarios with the Apprenticeship Wage... S1) A 16 year old lear...

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"Re-start" on new version of Standard

Hi We have a learner who had been doing a Level 2 Brick apprenticeship under it's old version, 1,1 (at £9k). He had to be withdrawn with 6 months of his programme left due to losing his employment....

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Level 2 Functional Skills

I think I know the answer to this but the Functional Skills team here and one of my directors have asked me to confirm something one way or another and I'm struggling to find anything in black and ...

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Transferring Apprentices - Question Marks on learning

Seeking some advice please as we have different thoughts here in the office on this situation. We have been approached by an employer about a couple of apprentices they have had at a different trai...

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Breaks in Learning

Looking fo some advice here. In regards to Breaks in Learning and the Funding Rules I note that employers should agree to the BiL being put in place. "P268.2 The decision to take a break in learnin...

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DAS

I seem to recall last week some of you had issues with the DAS, have these issues been resolved?  We have had issues in trying to enter learner details on to it for the last week now but have not b...

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PDSATS

Has anyone else had any issues in uploading an ILR file to the PDSAT system today? I have tried several times today with both our final R11 return and also a new file created today but get a "Fail"...