Glossary
Functional skills
Qualifications in English, maths and digital skills designed for practical application.
In full
Functional skills qualifications develop practical English, maths and digital skills. They appear in study programmes, in apprenticeships and in adult provision, with different rules in each.
Where this comes up
module
Adult Skills Fund: earning, evidencing and reconciling
An allocation you have to earn, with eligibility that must be evidenced before you claim, and a reconciliation at the end that can reduce what you keep.
scenario
A bootcamp outcome is achieved but never recorded
A learner gets a job after a Skills Bootcamp. Nobody records it, and the outcome milestone is not claimed.
scenario
Adult delivery is running above the allocation
By May, adult skills earnings are tracking above the allocation. What can be done, and what evidence is needed?
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Devolved adult funding: whose rules apply
The learner's home postcode decides which authority funds their adult skills learning, and therefore which rules, rates and reporting apply.
scenario
An adult learner moves house mid-programme
A learner moves from a devolved area to a non-devolved one halfway through their aim. Which authority's rules apply, and does anything change?
scenario
An adult learner withdraws in week six
A learner on a fully funded adult qualification stops attending six weeks in. Follow it from the tutor noticing to the audit test.