Dean Cox
Finance Compliance Manager for an Apprenticeship Training Provider
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Delivering EPA to a sister company
Hello, Can two separate companies as part of the same parent company group, provide services to each other? For example, one company being the EPAO for the other company that is an apprenticeship p...
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EPA Fail - Completion Payment
Hello, If you have a learner who has taken all elements of EPA, but failed a section, would you update the ILR right away to show the 'completion' but 'no achievement' or would you wait to see if t...
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Can functional skills be completed after the ZPROG learning?
Can a learner go through gateway (complete learning ZPROG status 1 and 8) before completing functional skills? As long as if they subsequently complete it before taking the EPA? The reason why i as...
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Break Query - Completed Learning But Not Gone Through Gateway
Hello, We have a learner who has completed their learning towards the apprenticeship and is ready to go through to their gateway meeting, however now requires an extended time off so will not be ha...
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DAS secured after learner start date
We have scenarios where cohorts have been deleted (in error?) by the employer, so that we non-levy employers are reserving funds again after the learner has started. We understand that you are supp...
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Past Planned End Date - AAF
Hello, On the Apprenticeship Accountability Framework for Past Planned End Date, does anyone know if the figure is accumulative? If someone has gone past planned end date but then subsequently goes...
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Offsetting Invoices with Credit Notes - Coinvestment
An interesting scenario has occurred, which really has me stumped, and would love to know if others have had any scenarios like this, whilst i await an official answer from the ESFA, as my finance ...
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Find copy of PDSAT from R14 (2021-2022)
How am I able to produce a PDSAT report using the R14 (2021-2022) ILR? I am unable to locate the version we had at the time, since the desktop version of PDSAT is no longer useable. The online vers...
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Wrong EPAO listed on the ILR
It has come to my attention that the wrong EPAO ID was selected at the beginning of the programme for a learner who has now completed. There is no impact to TNP2 price. Can we change the EPAO ID, w...
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Provider Additional Payments
Is anyone aware of more specific guidance/rules around the two payments of £500 received by the provider as an additional payment which we retain and how it can be spent. The main ESFA rules briefl...