Glossary
Tailored learning
Non-formula-funded adult provision, previously community learning and non-regulated learning, with its own funding model and allocation.
In full
Tailored learning covers adult provision that is not formula funded, including what was previously called community learning and non-regulated provision.
It is recorded under its own ILR funding model and reconciled against its own allocation, and must not be blended with formula-funded Adult Skills Fund delivery.
The rules behind this
Tailored learning is funded and recorded separately from formula-funded Adult Skills Fund provision, under its own funding model, and must not be blended with it.
Where this comes up
scenario
Tailored learning recorded under the wrong allocation
Non-formula-funded adult provision has been recorded alongside formula-funded delivery. Two allocations, one set of records.
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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.
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How further education funding actually works
Colleges are not paid a block grant for teaching. They are funded through several separate streams, each with its own rules, and each earned by recording delivery in the ILR.
diagnostic
Learning support is claimed but the evidence chain is incomplete
A learning support claim has been made, but one of the links in the chain is missing: the assessment of need, the record of support actually delivered, the cost of delivering it, or the recording that triggers the claim.
diagnostic
Should this be a break in learning or a withdrawal?
The learner has stopped, and the question is whether to record a break in learning, which pauses the programme on the basis that they will return, or a withdrawal, which ends it. The two have different funding and achievement consequences, so the choice is not administrative.
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Learning support: the evidence chain from need to claim
Need assessed, support delivered, cost recorded, claim made. Every link has to hold, and a gap anywhere makes the claim indefensible however genuine the support was.
Sources
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