Melanie Aspinall
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Subsidy Control
The apprenticeship funding rules for 21/22 has a new section on Subsidy Control (which in my head has replaced the de minimis state aid option - please feel free to tell me otherwise). For our ver...
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Change of Employer - Pandemic
Was wondering what other people's interpretation is of this that is on the ESFA's Providing apprentices during the Covid-19 pandemic site: Changing employers Funding rules only allow an apprentice ...
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Confused by terminology
Hi, Trying to establish what a financial assurance audit review would be called by the ESFA as they have the Provider Market Oversight Assurance Review and I've just watched an AELP workshop where ...
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Break in learning then change employer
Hi, I know I know the answer to this but doing a sanity check. If a learner is on a break in learning and then whilst on the break changes employer, this has to be classed as a withdrawal and re...
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Apprenticeship Funding Rules 21/22
Just putting a wildly hopeful post out here in the chance that someone from the ESFA may read it. Any chance of having the 21/22 funding rules in the next month, just so we can get our processes an...
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PICS Users: PLR Audit Evidence
Hi, We have recently moved systems to PICS and there is a handy function to import the PLR data from the LRS. Our Operations team have asked if the exported spreadsheet from PICS along with a scree...
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Year End Funding Recovery
Hi, In the funding monitoring reports dashboard user guide, on certain reports the action taken by the ESFA is "Year End Funding Recovery". How do the ESFA recover this funding? Is it via the ILR i...
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Change Apprentice Standard Level
Hi, Where an apprentice is struggling on the level of standard, can we transfer them down a level (same standard) without having to do a further 12 months as minimum duration? The apprentice has al...
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Employer Name Change
If an SME employer changes their name from, for example, Vision to Vizion Services and the ACT code hasn't changed, the employer contributions have been (or will be) collected (up to the final 20% ...
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V2 funding rules - gap in change of employer
My head is spinning from the constant change of this rule but can someone please clarify how we update the ILR if there is a change of employer that is less than 30 days? Is it just a case of updat...