Darren Hands

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International Qualification in English

We have a potential apprentice who has the Cambridge Assessment International Education – Level1/Level2 Certificate in First Language English (ref No 50057820) with an achieved grade of “C”An onlin...

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International Qualification in English

We have a potential apprentice who has the Cambridge Assessment International Education – Level1/Level2 Certificate in First Language English (ref No 50057820) with an achieved grade of “C” An onli...

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Residency Query

We have been approached by a few potential AEB learners who are not originally from the UK/EEA – primarily Nigeria, Ghana and Sri Lanka They have Residency Permits which state: Type of Permit: “Ski...

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Adult Education Budget - Co-funding

Do the same rules apply to collecting the co-funded element of funding for AEB as for Apprenticeships - ie, Would the ESFA hold payment back if the co-funded element was not collected? TiA

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Functional Skills being undertaken at another provider

We have someone who has approached us to undertake a hair qualification under the Adult Skills funding but is already doing English and Maths functional skills at another provider.  Would this be a...

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Children of Turkish Workers

We have been approached by an employer who is "Self Employed" as a hairdresser.  He comes from Turkey (we need to check when he arrived in the UK).  He wishes to take his two daughters on as appren...

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Learning Aim Organisation and EPAO

The “new” L2 Barbering Apprenticeship shows the qualifications for it to be: City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma for Hair Professionals - Barbering 603/1380/8 TQUK Level 2 Diploma for Hair Professionals ...

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DSAT 23A-215 - Planned Off the Job Training Hours

Just going through our PDSAT reports and I have come across something which I cannot get my head around and was wondering if anyone else has come across this. DSAT 23A-215 relating to Planned Off t...

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Completion Holdback

I'm hoping someone may be able to offer some suggestions here. We have an apprentice who passed their EPA last month and was processed in our ILR return.  However, it than transpired the ESFA have ...

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Clawback of funding

I'm having one of those moments and hopefully someone can clarify something for me. We have a learner with a planned end date in April 23 but actually completed their learning ahead of schedule in ...