ILR specification: 2021 to 2022

Learning Delivery Monitoring: attribute field

Definition

Indicates participation in programmes or initiatives.

Reason Required

Learning aim monitoring.

• Type: LDM
• Min Occurs: 0
• Max Occurs: 6

Collection Requirements

Notes

• The Learning delivery monitoring document contains all of the valid codes available for this field, but is not teaching year specific. The 'Valid from' column should be used to determine whether the code is valid for use.

• The document will be available and published on the 'Appendices, validation rules and schema' page to the ILR Specification for the current year.

• Unassigned codes will fail validation and must not be used until they have been authorised for use and have been published.

• The ESFA directorate responsible for running the project or pilot will inform providers involved of the code that should be used.

• All learning aims delivered through funding models 81 and 82 should be identified using a Learning Delivery Monitoring code. Providers will be informed of which code to use. This does not apply to apprenticeship standards.

Attribute Codes

Code	Title	Definition	Valid from	Valid to
034	OLASS – Offenders in custody	Use this code only if you are a provider contracted to deliver learning to offenders in custodial establishments through the Offenders’ Learning and Skills Service (OLASS). This will enable the tracking and matching of offender learning and the continuity of learning aims when moving from offender learning in custody into the community.		31 Jul 2022
086	OLASS – Offenders in the community	Use this code only if you are delivering learning to offenders under supervision, or serving a sentence in the community. In order for providers to utilise this code, a referral to learning provision must have been made by either the National Probation Service or Youth Offending Team.	01 Aug 2007	31 Jul 2022
118	Proxy Learning Aim	This code should be used when providers are recording a different learning aim to that actually being delivered because the actual aim is not yet available on the LARS database. This code must not be used if the learning aim is completed or in the end of year returns.	01 Aug 2010
129	Group Training Association (GTA)	A GTA provides support on accessing, managing and the delivery of training for a group of employers to encourage their involvement in apprenticeships. This code is used to monitor the delivery of apprenticeships through GTAs.	01 Aug 2011
130	Apprenticeship Training Agency (ATA)	This code is used to identify Apprenticeships where the apprentice is directly employed by the ATA who then hires them out to a host employer.	01 Aug 2011
131	NEET Apprenticeship starts	This code is used to identify all learners from the NEET cohort who start an apprenticeship from 2011/12 through to 2014/15. This will allow reporting on the impact of the funding available to support this group and the progress toward the 40,000 target. NEET status applies where someone who is eligible for funding (2011/12 Learner Eligibility and Contribution Rules) has not been enrolled or engaged on any educational courses or training programmes or been employed under a contract of employment for a period of a minimum of 13 weeks prior to starting the apprenticeship. Other programmes may have different definitions of NEET.	01 Sep 2011	31 Aug 2015
132	Apprenticeship Grant for Employers for 16 to 24 year olds (AGE 16-24) - Provider Payment Trigger	This code is used to identify learners recruited to apprenticeships through AGE 16 to 24 and importantly it will also act as the trigger for payment to providers claiming the grant on behalf of eligible employers. This is the Employer Wage Inventive Initiative as part of the Youth Contract. The National Apprenticeship Service will provide up to 40,000 Apprenticeships for Small Employers recruiting 16 to 24 year olds with a value of £1,500 to encourage new employers to take on new 16- 24 year old apprentices. More information available at http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/Partners/Policy/AGE-1624.aspx	08 Feb 2012	31 Dec 2014
320	14-16 Direct Funded Students in FE	This code should be used to identify learners from September 2013 who are full time 14 and 15 year olds and have been recruited directly by a General Further Education (GFE) or Sixth Form college.	01 Aug 2013
321	14-16 Home Educated Students	This code should be used to identify learners from September 2013 who are alternative provision census home educated students. These students will be funded as 14-16s direct in FE.	01 Aug 2013
322	Residential Courses	To identify courses that are being delivered by Long Term Residential Colleges (LTRCs) to learners in residence. The Education Skills Funding Agency funding calculation will use this information. You should not claim for Adult Learner Support - residential access if you are using code 322.	01 Aug 2013
324	Personalised learning programme for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities	This code should be used to identify non regulated provision that is created for learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities as part of their personalised learning programme where there is no other suitable alternative within a regulated framework	01 Aug 2013
328	RoTL	This code should be used for learners who are released from prison on a temporary licence.	01 Aug 2013
331	Princes Trust Team programme	This code should be used to record learning aims that are delivered as part of the Prince’s Trust TEAM programme. TEAM is a 12-week personal development course, offering work experience, qualifications, practical skills, community projects and a residential week. It should be used for both 16-19 and Adult skills funded learners.	01 Aug 2014
333	Apprenticeship Grant for Employers for 16 to 24 year olds (AGE 16 to 24) - Provider Payment Trigger from 1 Jan 2015 to 31 Mar 2016	This code is used to identify learners recruited to apprenticeships through the Apprenticeship Grant for Employers 16 to 24 (AGE) from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2015 and will act as the trigger for payment to providers claiming the grant on behalf of eligible employers. The grant applies only to apprenticeship Frameworks and not to the new apprenticeship standards.	01 Jan 2015	31 Mar 2016
334	Apprenticeship Grant for Employers for 16 to 24 year olds (AGE 16 to 24) - Strategic Partner from 1 Jan 2015 to 31 Dec 2015	This code is used to identify learners recruited to apprenticeships through AGE 16 to 24 where payment to the employer will be made via our Strategic Partners - providers should use this code where they are reporting the learner for MI and performance reasons, but not claiming an AGE 16 to 24 Grant payment on behalf of the employer. The grant applies only to apprenticeship Frameworks and not to the new apprenticeship standards.	01 Jan 2015	31 Dec 2015
345	Sheffield City Region Skills Bank (Growth Deal)	This code should be used to record activity under the tendered Sheffield City Region Skills Bank (Growth Deal), delivered by selected providers, for payment reconciliation. The code should only be used for the Growth Deal element (funding code 81) and not for the ESF element (funding code 70).	01 Aug 2015	31 Mar 2021
347	Steel Industries Redundancy Training	This code should be used to identify learning aims that are being undertaken as part of the package of support that has been agreed for learners who have been made redundant or who are at risk of redundancy from the Steel Industry. This code must only be used by providers who have received written permission from the Agency to do so.	01 Aug 2015
348	Apprenticeship seasonal worker pilot	This code should be used to identify learning aims that are being delivered as part of the seasonal worker pilot where the apprenticeship is completed in more than a single episode of employment/learning.	01 Apr 2016
349	Apprenticeship Grant for Employers (AGE) - Provider Payment Trigger from 1 April 2016 to 31 July 2017	This code is used to identify learners recruited to apprenticeships through the Apprenticeship Grant for Employers 16 to 24 (AGE) from 1 April 2016 to 31 July 2017 and will act as the trigger for payment to providers claiming the grant on behalf of eligible employers. This code should also be used for learners / employers who fall within a devolved area. The grant applies only to apprenticeship Frameworks and not to the new apprenticeship standards.	01 Apr 2016	31 Jul 2017
351	Former Employer Ownership Pilot Provision	This code is used to identify learning aims previously delivered through the Employer Ownership Pilot and which is eligible for mainstream funding to be recorded on the ILR. This code will be used to exclude these records from analysis to prevent double-counting.	01 Apr 2015	31 Jul 2017
352	HESA-generated ILR file	This code is used to identify records generated by HESA. This code is used only by HESA and is auto generated whilst creating an ILR record from a HESA return.	01 Aug 2016
353	Non-apprenticeship Sporting Excellence Award	This will permit providers to identify those learners and associated qualifications with alternative completion conditions (ACC) and permit them to be funded on a bespoke basis whilst ensuring they remain outside MI/SFR and other considerations that would make them formally “apprentices” whilst still undertaking the qualification within that framework.	01 Aug 2017
355	Non-apprenticeship Sea Fishing	Apprenticeship “Sea Fishing” which relates to a variety of possible apprenticeship routes described in the Act of Parliament	01 Aug 2017
356	Apprenticeship being delivered to own employees	This code is used to identify apprenticeship programmes on Funding model 36 that are being delivered by an employer to their own employees, and so do not require co-investment payments to be recorded on the ILR.	01 May 2017
357	Procured Adult Education Budget (AEB)	This code should be used for all learning aims on the standalone procured AEB contracts that were awarded in July 2017 and started in November 2017. This code is required to distinguish procured AEB from the allocated AEB in the 2017/18 contract extensions that started in August 2017. The code is used by the funding calculation and mis-coding will affect payments. The contracts are for up to three years but are reviewed annually. AEB combines all ESFA Adult participation and support funding that is not European Social Fund, advanced learner loans or apprenticeships.	01 Nov 2017	31 Jul 2021
358	Extended Allocated Non-Levy Apprenticeships	This LDM code is to identify starts on the May 2017 to December 2017 allocated non-levy apprenticeships delivery, where the contracts are extended to March 2018 for new starts. Only existing non-levy providers who were unsuccessful in the procurement exercise can use this code and enrol new starts up to March 2018. The ESFA will monitor the use of the code, if validation rules cannot be applied, and ineligible starts will not be funded. This code must not be used on procured non-levy contracts. The code must be used across all collections/academic years until the apprentice has completed.	01 Jan 2018	31 Mar 2018
359	Career Learning Pilot	This code should be used to identify learners who are part of the career learning pilot.	01 Aug 2018	31 Jul 2020
360	Flexible Learning Fund	This code should be used to identify those providers who are part of a successful bid for the Fund and will be delivering eligible provision to AEB or Loans learners using flexible approaches and/or packages of learning.	01 Aug 2018	31 Jul 2019
361	Waiver to record payment records for apprenticeships	This code should be used to identify providers who have authorisation to waive recording payment records for Apprenticeships.	01 May 2017
362	Apprentice care leavers	This code should be used to identify apprentices who do not wish their employer to be informed that they are a care leaver.	01 Aug 2018
363	Learners in receipt of low wages	This code is used to identify eligible employed adult learners you fully fund (who would normally be co-funded) for ESFA funded Adult Education Budget provision up to and including level 2, and earn less than £17,374.50 annual gross salary.	01 Aug 2018
364	Adult education budget run-down contract for services -continuing learners from 2017/18	Adult education budget run-down continuing learners - authorised learners	01 Aug 2018	31 Jul 2019
365	Institute of Technology Provision	This is a programme to be delivered by high quality, prestigious institutions offering higher level technical education and training (STEM qualifications at Level 3 and above) to young people and to those already in employment, delivering on the manifesto commitment to establish Institutes of Technology. The IoT branded provision will be delivered under a license agreement between DfE and each IoT. DfE wishes to monitor the volume of provision delivered under the brand, the Level of the qualifications studied and the number of students achieving.	01 Aug 2019
366	Non-levy non-procured contract for authorised apprentices	This code should be used to identify apprentices in specific cases where the ESFA has authorised them to be funded under a non-levy non-procured contract instead of a non-levy procured contract. The ESFA will monitor the use of this code.	01 Jun 2019
367	De-merger monitoring	To identify learning delivery records which will be moved from the existing UKRPN under structural change - only to be used with authorisation from the ESFA	01 Jul 2019
368	COVID-19 temporary or permanent withdrawals	To identify learners who have left their programme without achieving due to COVID-19, including those who are being supported by the provider so they can return when it is safe to do so	21 Mar 2020
369	COVID-19 new programme starts	To identify learners when they start a programme implemented by the provider in response to CV19, with support to ensure they start in learning when it is safe to do so	21 Mar 2020
370	Short Term Funding Initiative (STFI) 1	Response to Economic Shocks	01 Aug 2020
371	Short Term Funding Initiative (STFI) 2	Response to Economic Shocks	01 Aug 2020
372	Short Term Funding Initiative (STFI) 3	Response to Economic Shocks	01 Aug 2020
373	Short Term Funding Initiative (STFI) 4	Response to Economic Shocks	01 Aug 2020
374	Apply amended earnings calculation for authorised apprentices, to address specific scenarios with negotiated prices.	To be used when authorised by the ESFA, to apply an amendment to the apprenticeship earnings calculation, which addresses specific scenarios on negotiated prices for apprenticeships starting before 1 Aug 2020. It is not recommended to use this code unless authorised, as it changes effective prices and affects the data matching process.	01 Jul 2020
375	sector based work academies pre-employment training	This code is used to identify participants referred by Job Centre Plus to FE providers to undertake sector-based work academies pre-employment training funded by the Adult Education Budget.	01 Sep 2020
376	Classroom based 18/19 Offer	This code is used to identify learners that undertake 19 year old learners who are part of the DfE Covid-19 recovery package for FE, a one-year high value courses offer funded through the Adult Education Budget.	01 Sep 2020	31 Jul 2021
377	19-24 Traineeship (2020 procurement)	This code is used for claiming funding for 19-24 traineeships under a contract for services awarded in summer 2020.	01 Sep 2020	31 Jul 2023
378	Adult Level 3 Offer	This code is used to identify adults learners that undertake a specified Level 3 qualification as part of the Lifetime Skills Guarantee programme through the Adult Education Budget funded via the National Skills Fund.	01 Apr 2021
379	Adult Education Budget procurement 2021	This code should be used for all learning aims on the procured AEB contracts for services that start on 1 August 2021. This code is required to distinguish AEB procured in 2021 from AEB procured in 2017 and from AEB allocated to grant funded providers. The code is used by the funding calculation and mis-coding will affect payments. The contracts are for one year but there is the potential to extend. AEB combines all ESFA Adult participation and support funding that is not European Social Fund, advanced learner loans, apprenticeships, traineeships or community learning.	01 Aug 2021	31 Jul 2024
381	16-24 year old continuing a 14-16 valid aim started when the learner was aged 14 or 15	This code should ONLY be used for students who started a qualification with only 14-16 validity (i.e. does not have 16-19 validity) when they were aged 14 or 15 and who have continued to study the qualification after their 16th birthday. Normally students aged 16 and over cannot undertake qualifications only having 14-16 validity, however we recognise some 15 year olds may not finish their 14-16 valid qualification before their 16th birthday. Using this code will ensure that these students can continue to be funded and, therefore, valid in the ILR return.	01 Aug 2021
382	Free Courses for Jobs (Level 3 Offer) for Low Wage Learners	This code is used to identify employed learners earning under the low wage threshold (the national living wage - £18,525 in the 2022-23 financial year – or, if appropriate, the threshold set by GLA/MCAs), accessing qualifications through the Free Courses for Jobs (level 3 offer) from 1 April 2022.	01 Apr 2022
383	Portable flexi-job Apprenticeships pilot	To identify apprentices taking part in the portable flexi-job apprenticeships pilot programme.	01 Jun 2022	01 Oct 2023
384 - 500	Unassigned codes for new initiatives