Andrea Scotti created a post, 15 June 2021 12:06

Contracts of employment for Apprentices and Incentives

1. Further education and training providers

Please can someone advise on whether an employer who has employed someone on a casual contract or as saturday staff prior to employing them as an Apprentice on a full-time Apprenticeship contract, ...

Andrea Scotti created a post, 03 June 2021 15:11

0 % proportion of funding for Functional Skills

1. Further education and training providers

Please can I ask all PICs users whether I am losing the plot or am I right in thinking that if you put 0% in the proportion of funding box for a Functional skill it will drag through the full amoun...

Andrea Scotti created a post, 25 May 2021 14:17

Apprentice travelling expenses

1. Further education and training providers

Does anyone know if the employer or the apprentice should be the one to pay travelling expenses to a learning hub once a week for off the job training - MTIA

Andrea Scotti created a post, 20 May 2021 10:57

Employer Incentives claimed via DAS

1. Further education and training providers

Please could someone advise on the following situation - an apprentice was recruited and given a contract of employment for November 2020 - the salon then had to go into lockdown due to Covid.  The...

Andrea Scotti created a post, 06 May 2021 09:20

Employer contribution for 19+ apprentice

1. Further education and training providers

Can I just check if a new employer, taking on a 19+ apprentice, who initially started their programme when they were 16-18, would have to pay the employer contribution of 5%?  Or does the fact they...

Andrea Scotti created a post, 28 April 2021 15:11

Apprenticeship enrolment - being auditable

1. Further education and training providers

We are exploring ways of making our sign-up process more digital and user friendly and I wanted to check whether a document sent to a learner or employer, that would usually have a wet signature, c...

Andrea Scotti created a post, 26 March 2021 08:33

Help needed - Apprentice turned 19yrs while sorting DAS out

1. Further education and training providers

Please can someone advise on this or let me know who I can raise it with  - I've also now realised that they will miss out on the £1000 incentive for employing a 16-18 yr old - we've had a new appr...

Andrea Scotti created a post, 25 March 2021 11:47

Apprentice turned 19yrs prior funds being reserved on DAS

1. Further education and training providers

Please can someone advise - we've had a new apprentice start on 27/1/21 and when the enrolment was received by the data team, it was missing some required information. Once this information was gai...

Andrea Scotti created a post, 22 March 2021 10:03

Redundancy and new incentives for employers

1. Further education and training providers

We have a learner who has done 15 months of a 2 year apprenticeship with a previous provider and she was made Redundant in October 2020.  One of our employers wants to take her on to complete her a...

Andrea Scotti created a post, 17 March 2021 11:08

UKPLR Reference number

1. Further education and training providers

We've been asked to do a survey by Ofsted and they have sent through some documents to complete prior.  On this they are asking for our UKRLP Reference number - in addition to our UKPRN number - do...