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Hi Martin, they didn't really say. They just made an written observation that a lot of our apprentices were doing over the 20% as if it was a really bad thing. I've looked in the funding and monitoring guide and can't find anything that say's anything about going over the 20%.
See the guidance:
You will need to monitor what the Apprentice logs as OTJ training as it may not be inline with the above, if you are happy it does comply then it should not be an issue.
HTH
The only thing I can think of is they're saying that you could deliver less for the same money, but as long as the extra hours are legit and being done by the learner independently, seems a weird thing to pick you up on. Definitely wouldn't come up in a "real" audit where they count to 20% and then basically stop ;)
Jaci Littlewood
Planned and Actual OTJ Hours
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What if anything are the implications of recording higher than the planned OTJ Hours?
What are the implications of a learner working well over their OTJ Hours?
We recently commissioned a mock PFA Audit and one of the things they picked us up for what that we had in quite a few instances where
The audit findings were quite scathing and picked it up as a concern (but didn't affect funding obviously!
Thoughts please?