Scenario
A governor asks what the funding risk actually is
At a board meeting, a governor asks what would have to go wrong for the funding position to be materially misstated. What is a good answer?
The situation
- Setting
- A governing body meeting
- Question
- What would have to go wrong for the funding position to be materially wrong?
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What makes a good answer?
The rules behind this
In further education, funding is not paid simply because a college says it taught someone. It is earned by recording what was delivered in the Individualised Learner Record, and that record is what the funding calculation, the performance measures and any audit all read from.
Evidence is strongest when it is created at the time of the event it describes and is retrievable without reconstruction. Evidence assembled after a query is asked is weaker and takes longer to produce.
Sources
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