1. How to record on ILR Co-Investment Payment waiver

Steve already answered that bit; set the SEM (small employer) field to 1 in the ILR. It's in the Employment History entity. How you physically do that depends of what tool you use to generate your ...

1. How to record on ILR Co-Investment Payment waiver

Make sure you've got a declaration that the employer is small (had fewer than 50 employees on average in the last year) to support that.

1. Repeating Functional Skills

Christine Gregory I don't think you will be able to claim funding if the PLR isn't fixed. ILR rows in the PLR never have an Achievement date, but they do have an actual end date and a grade, so sti...

1. Work Expereience within a Study Programme

The way we always think about it is, can we evidence to an auditor that there really was a clear and achieveable plan for them to do WEX. If 95% of a cohort did WEX, and we just struggled with the ...

1. Term-Time Contracts - OTJ Hours

In my experience, whenever we calculate average weekly hours for a term time only apprentice, they almost always come out as 30+ hours anyway. So, they're still technically full time, and they have...

1. Level of highest qual unknown - international certif...

We have a lot of students whose highest qual was overseas (non-apprentices mostly). Do most providers just leave them all as 97? Obviously we can't claim any legal entitlements or FCFJ funding base...

1. Study Programme - Personal and Social Development

I almost wish they'd bring back CMISC001 (it was an aim we used in the ILR for tutorial and enrichment). We try and insist that day one always contains at least a little qual content, to avoid issu...

1. Invoicing employers

Whilst not common, I think it's allowable. We have something in our contract that says we can invoice them for any funds we lose as a result of their actions/inactions. We would potentially invoice...

1. Low Wage and Self-employed

But pay slips aren't foolproof either. We use the last three, but some people's work fluctuates a lot, and their three before that could have been way higher for all we know, or the following three...

1. Low Wage and Self-employed

I've never had one, but I think we'd accept their last evidence of income, so that HMRC return they do sounds like it would be ok. As the rules say, it's not an exhaustive list, you can only do wha...