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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Cyber Essentials MFA becoming mandatory
Here we go again, although not directly funding, we have discussed the dreaded Cyber Essentials Certification previously, so here we go again. Our IT team have picked up to renew certificate from A...
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Last Date New Start - when may be updated?
Here we are again planning for September 2026, where a lot of the qualifications we currently offer at Level 1, 2 and Entry have a LDNS of July 2026. From memory it was around June when dates got u...
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Free School Meals Information
Our Principal has asked if I can find details of any students who received Free School Meals in the last 5 years at school. I thought this was available on GIAP, but can't see it. Is it on GIAP or ...
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Taking Teaching Further - Ofsted?
Slightly off-topic query - I've been asked by our Principal if the Taking Teaching Further programme we run (funded by DfE) is in scope for Ofsted inspection. The team who run the programme claim i...
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When I go through on Submit Learner Data the claim i...
When I go through on Submit Learner Data the claim is greyed out - I haven't signed on MyESF yet - am I correct in thinking you have to do the MyESF bit first, that then triggers the SLD area?
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Do we need an address to start a student on programme?
Here's a new one on myself - we have an application from a student with an EHCP, so will be High Needs Funding (we are a specialist College), but we can't get an address from parent. We know local ...
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Thanks Steve, thought that would be the case. Altern...
Thanks Steve, thought that would be the case. Alternative is to do it as a Supported Internship.
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Looking at this again, it may be because we only hav...
Looking at this again, it may be because we only have 16-19 funding which cannot be changed post R14. We only sign the claim in MyESF. Anyone else seeing the same and can confirm please?