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 gone past Course Validity Date!

Help! We've found we've got a number of Edexcel Accredited aims which when we mark as completed get the dreaded "The Learning aim reference is not valid in the LARS database for this Funding model ...

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NHS Data Security Protection Toolkit

Bit off topic this, but working in MIS everything no one else knows how to solve tends to land on our desks! Has anyone else got NHS contracts? You may have if you have High Needs Students and they...

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Learner Destination Records (High Needs 16-25)

Got an odd error coming up on Learner Destination Records for most entries: "There must be more than one Learner Destination and Progression record with the same Learner Reference Number." Never se...

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Mid Year Funding Claim Greyed out - is it just me?

Anyone else found that on SLD when you go to Mid Year Funding Claim it's there but button is greyed out? I've done them before so have right IDAMs permissions. I thought I'd get ahead and do it tod...

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Apprentice on zero hours contract

Here's a query our apprenticeship programme team have posed - can an apprentice be on a zero hours contract on a peripatetic (effectively our own bank staff) if they commit to say a minimum of an 8...

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16-19 transfer and start date for work exp aim

Should know the answer to this but am now doubting myself. We've had a 16-19 funded student just start with us (Jan 2023) (learner has EHCP and has been placed with us having won tribunal) - the sc...

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OK to remove aim?

Checking I am ok to do this - 16-19 funding, we put a duplicate aim on by mistake at R04. As this is in year, are we ok to just remove one of them without doing any damage?

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DAS time to synch and apprentice needing to confirm?

Should know this really! We are an employer provider, today our "employer" team have added some new apprentices, we've done the provider portal part and the only outstanding part is apprentice to c...

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2023/2024 "Traineeship" as study programme

So, ESFA are pulling plug on Traineeships for 23/24 as a standalone programme. I'm trying to work out if the "flexibility" of running as a study programme helps or hinders for our 16-19 provision w...

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16-19 Learner restart

Help please! I might have got this wrong in 21/22 and now need to work out what to do! We had a learner on a 16-19 funded Traineeship who temporarily withdrew due to having an Op. I marked as Temp ...