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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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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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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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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User locked out of forum
Colleague here at National Star seems to have got locked out of forum - gets a message "you will be able to post, reply and subscribe once the ESFA approves your account for this community". Been u...
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2024/2025 Onwards English and maths hours
I'm sure I know the answer to this, but I can already hear our timetabling and English/maths teams asking me am I sure, have I checked, and how are they going to do this... (which isn't my problem!...
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IT Health Checks (ITHC) - who's doing what?
Sense check with everyone what your IT departments are doing about the clause in teh ESFA/DfE contract: 1.17 The Provider will ensure that any IT systems and hosting environments that are used to h...
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FEW failing?
Is anyone else getting "Failed" when trying to upload to FEW? I've managed to get one through earlier but I know it's got loads of incorrect data. Having done the corrections I'm getting "Failed" a...
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16-19 Tuition Fund In Year Spend Declaration
Is it just me struggling to find a link to report in year spend of 16-19 Tuition Funding? There's a post reminding us to do it, doesn't contain a link to where to do it, and I can't find one in the...