Glossary
FAM
Funding and monitoring
The general term for the paired type-and-code records that carry funding, eligibility and monitoring information in the ILR.
In full
Funding and monitoring records exist at both learner and learning delivery level. Each has a type, which says what kind of information it is, and a code, which says which value applies.
They are the part of the ILR most often filled in badly, because they are easy to miss at enrolment and rarely produce an obvious error when wrong.
The rules behind this
Funding and monitoring records, held at both learner and learning-delivery level, carry the eligibility, entitlement, support and monitoring information that the funding calculation and assurance reports depend on.
Where this comes up
module
Working data quality and funding monitoring reports
Reports that flag records for investigation are the most useful assurance tool available, and the most commonly misread. A flag is a question, not a finding.
diagnostic
A learner is flagged on a data quality or funding monitoring report
A record meets the criteria of a report that identifies data worth checking. That is a request to investigate, not a statement that the record is wrong. Some flagged records are entirely correct and simply need their evidence to be locatable.
module
The anatomy of the ILR
What is actually inside the Individualised Learner Record: the entities, how they nest, and which fields carry the funding.
diagnostic
An aim is on the ILR but generates no funding
The aim validates and appears on the ILR, but generates no earnings. Validation and funding are different tests: a record can be perfectly valid and still not qualify for funding.
diagnostic
Funding dropped this month and nobody can explain why
The funding report for this period shows less than expected, or less than last period. Because every return restates the whole year, a change made this month can move earnings reported in earlier months, so the drop may have nothing to do with this month's delivery.
scenario
Working in two funding years at the same time
It is September. The new year's first return is due and last year's final return has not closed. Two rulesets, two datasets, one team.
Sources
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