1. Membership costs for mandatory qualification

Thanks Cheryl  It says the apprentice is not to contribute towards eligible costs in the rules and doesn't mention not to contribute at all so think the employer I have is looking at that. I did ad...

1. Membership costs for mandatory qualification

Hi Cheryl, Did you get an answer on this? I have the same question today and read it as an ineligible cost so it can't come out of levy funds and can't see anything stopping the employer making the...

1. Change of Employer late notification

Thanks Ruth always reassuring to hear someone else has come to the same conclusion. As long as learning is documented then I can't see there would be a clawback if it were picked up only a manageme...

1. Change of Employer late notification

Yes that's what we are doing. Not saying it is the right way but I can't see we have any other options as we can't tell a learner that they can't use x amount of weeks work and OTJ due to admin. We...

1. Change of Employer late notification

Hi Ben,  We had exactly this debate not so long ago. I spoke to an auditor who said they would be fine with paperwork and agreements being late but he wouldn't expect them to be much older than a f...

1. Guided Learning Hours

We work with GMCA and they say you have to plan to cover at least 70% of the GLH in your delivery plan. If the learner does not turn up for the full hours its fine but you have to plan to deliver a...

1. Audit and Cognassist

I tried to find anyone who had been through audit with Cognasist under new funding rules on learning support but was unable to find anyone. Would be really interested to speak to you if you are cur...

1. Overseas apprenticeship privately funded

Ha ha thanks Steve that songs going to be stuck in my head all day now!

1. Overseas apprenticeship privately funded

The employer is a UK employer that we already deliver an apprenticeship programme to. They have staff working overseas but would also like them to complete the same programme. As they are not livin...

1. Apprenticeship withdrawal and restart QAR

Thanks Martin Seems really unfair that you have to process them as withdrawals if there is more than a 30 day gap in-between employers. I know of providers that use BILs for this and I can see why....