Scenario
Support that everybody knows about and nobody recorded
A learner receives real, substantial support from their course team all year. The claim is made. Nothing in the records shows the support happened.
The situation
- Stream
- Adult Skills Fund with learning support claimed
- Support
- Delivered informally within teaching sessions
- Records
- Monitoring codes on the ILR; nothing else
Constructed for teaching. No scenario in the Academy contains real learner data, and none ever will.
How should this be handled?
The rules behind this
Learning support funding requires a documented chain: an assessed need, the support actually provided, the cost of providing it, and the claim made. A claim without the chain is not defensible.
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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