Funding stream
Skills Bootcamps
Short, employer-linked adult training funded against delivery and outcome milestones rather than a formula, recorded under its own ILR funding model.
ILR funding model 37Not to be confused with ApprenticeshipsNot to be confused with ASF
The rules in one place
Each statement is labelled so you can tell an official requirement from our explanation of one.
Skills Bootcamps are funded against delivery and outcome milestones rather than through a formula applied to planned hours.
When it goes wrong
A learner left weeks ago but is still showing as continuing
The learner has stopped attending, but the ILR still shows their aim as open with no actual end date, so the system believes they are still in learning and keeps generating funding for them.
Funding dropped this month and nobody can explain why
The funding report for this period shows less than expected, or less than last period. Because every return restates the whole year, a change made this month can move earnings reported in earlier months, so the drop may have nothing to do with this month's delivery.
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, after which the year's ILR data cannot be amended and the funding, the achievement rates and the audit population are all taken from it.
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.
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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