David Dalby

Director of Funding and MIS at National Star College, specialist residential and day college for students with disabilities based in Cheltenham, Hereford and South East Wales.

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Aim closed at R14 by mistake

Asking for a friend as we'd never make a mistake like this... My friend closed an accredited aim at R14 23/24 but they've now found out student hadn't got enough credits last year to claim, so shou...

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Unless rules have changed, depends what type of esta...

Unless rules have changed, depends what type of establishment you are Gareth. General Further Education colleges I think have a portal system - you could find out who in your organisation has conta...

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Supported Internships/EHCPs

Colleague at another college has said they don't think a young person needs an EHCP to join a Supported Internship Programme. Thinking this through, I suppose of 16-18 they could in effect do a SI ...

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Access to Work - DWP - student claiming

Anyone had experience of Access to Work claims for Supported Internships? We've previously made claims to cover additional cost of Job Coaching in the workplace, but we've had a student enquire abo...

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Thanks for reply Chris, we currently state "as long ...

Thanks for reply Chris, we currently state "as long as necessary", but I want to update our policy. Our GDPR team are horrified we even ask for evidence of household financial position!

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2 Discretionary Bursary Questions

1st question more straightforward - for 16-19 Discretionary Bursary, once you have seen evidence of household income in line with your policy so meets eligibility do you keep a copy or record you'v...

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We produce a certificate for achievement of the Z co...

We produce a certificate for achievement of the Z code aims end of each year. Colleague cleverly did some sort of magic to populate a certificate document using the codes as an export from ILR.

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At National Star we do use Non-Reg aims to record th...

At National Star we do use Non-Reg aims to record the RARPA progress, as a specialist college for students with disabilities. We always have one or two students not doing accreditation at all.  Las...

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Sub Contracting 16-19 provision

We're about to sort out a very small sub contract for a group of students with an EHCP with us as a sub-contractor to a larger General Further Education College. (We're an independent specialist pr...

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