Scenario
Hours are planned to reach a band rather than to deliver a programme
A programme is designed with just enough hours to reach a higher funding band. Is that legitimate?
The situation
- Programme
- Designed with planned hours just above a band threshold
- Rationale
- To reach the higher band
- Delivery
- The additional activity is timetabled
Constructed for teaching. No scenario in the Academy contains real learner data, and none ever will.
Is this acceptable?
The rules behind this
A 16 to 19 student's funding band is determined by their planned hours for the year, which is the total of planned qualification hours and other planned, timetabled, education-related activity.
16 to 19 provision is funded through a national formula applied to a student's study programme, not through a price per qualification.
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
These are the official documents this page rests on. Where a figure, a deadline or an exact rule matters, the document is the authority and this page is the explanation.
Content reused from GOV.UK is Crown copyright, used under the Open Government Licence. FEFunding is not endorsed by the Department for Education.