Funding stream
Learning support
Funding claimed for the additional support a learner needs to take part in and complete their programme, with the need, the provision, the cost and the evidence all required to line up.
ILR funding model 25 or 35 or 36 or 38Not to be confused with High needs
Understand it
The rules in one place
Each statement is labelled so you can tell an official requirement from our explanation of one.
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.
When it goes wrong
See it play out
Check and evidence it
Monthly return readiness
The checks to run before every ordinary return. Short, repeatable, and the reason the consequential returns are manageable.
R14 final return readiness
Preparation for the final hard close, where the funding, the achievement rates and the audit population are all fixed at once.
Year-end close readiness
The wider close programme that runs from the spring, of which the final return is the last step.
Funding audit readiness
What to have in place before an audit, across every stream. Most of it is the routine you should be running anyway.
Learning support evidence
A focused review of the learning support chain, which is one of the most consistently tested areas in funding audit.
Enrolment quality review
A front-door review, which is where most funding-critical data is captured and where errors are cheapest to prevent.
Monthly data quality review
The standing data quality review, separate from the return checks, focused on trends rather than individual records.
New funding year setup
What to do before the first enrolments of a new funding year, rather than before the first return.
Governance assurance pack
What a governing body should see about funding, so assurance rests on measures rather than on reassurance.
New MIS starter induction
What a new member of an MIS team should be able to do, and by when. Not a funding control, but the thing that most often goes missing.
Terms you will meet
Official sources for this stream
These are the documents that govern this stream for the funding year. Rates, thresholds and exact conditions come from them, not from here.
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