Scenario
Eligibility was checked but nothing was kept
A sample of adult enrolments shows that eligibility was genuinely established at enrolment and the evidence was handed back.
The situation
- Stream
- Adult Skills Fund
- Sample
- Ten enrolments from one enrolment period
- Finding
- Eligibility checked visually at the desk; documents returned to the learner
- Records
- A tick box confirming the check was done
Constructed for teaching. No scenario in the Academy contains real learner data, and none ever will.
What is the position, and what should be done?
The rules behind this
Adult Skills Fund eligibility depends on the learner's age, residency and circumstances, and the provider must hold evidence of eligibility before funding is claimed.
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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