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• A11 – Sources of Funding for 10/11 (2 posts)

• Helen said 1 year, 6 months ago:

  Given that local authorities are no longer going to be directly funding colleges can anyone tell me whether or not the statement below (from the ILR specification for A11) still true? I'm updating our staff guidance and want to know whether we should be coding 16-18 year olds as 106 or 107 for A11.

  If the source of funding changes between academic years then this field must be updated each year to reflect the new source of funding. For example, A learner who starts a 2 year learning aim aged 18 but is aged 19 at the start of the second year of the course will be funded by the Local Authority during the first year (code 107) and by the Skills Funding Agency for the second year of the course (code 105). This field must be updated for the second year of learning to reflect this change.

• John McCabe said 1 year, 6 months ago:

  Wordsworth summed it up:

  Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
  But to be young was very heaven!–Oh! times,
  In which the meagre, stale, forbidding ways
  Of custom, law, and statute, took at once
  The attraction of a country in romance!

  Basically, if somebody goes over 18 they do source of funding changes so that bit is true. However since we found out that the local authorities have been removed we know not what we put in A11 or A70.

  Part of the trouble is that A70 is a three letter code and (guess what) both the SFA and YPLA use some of the same regional codes distinguished by a YP or SF at the front which doesn't properly appear in A70.

  We have been promised – http://www.theia.org.uk/News/LatestNews/ypla_funding_changes.htm – that we will be told what to do. Whether they get there by F01 is anybody's guess.