Scenario
A learner's age puts them in the wrong stream
Whether a learner is funded through 16 to 19 funding or the Adult Skills Fund depends on their age on 31 August in the funding year, not their age at the start of the aim, and from 19 on whether they are continuing a programme they began aged 16 to 18. A date of birth error moves them.
The situation
- Learner
- Close to the age boundary between streams
- Recorded
- On adult provision
- Question
- Whether their age on 31 August in the funding year supports it
Constructed for teaching. No scenario in the Academy contains real learner data, and none ever will.
What decides it?
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.
The funding model recorded against a learning delivery determines which funding rules, which calculation and which reports apply to it.
Sources
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