ILR specification: 2024 to 2025

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

• Valid codes for this field can be found in the table below. Codes are not teaching year specific. The 'Valid from' column should be used to determine whether the code is valid for use.

• 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	31 Mar 2023
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	31 Jul 2024
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
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	31 Jul 2022
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
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 £18,525 annual gross salary.	01 Aug 2018	31 Jul 2024
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	31 Jul 2022
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	31 Jul 2022
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
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 2024
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 2023
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	31 Jul 2024
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	T Levels for Adults Pilot	This code is used to identify learners aged 19 and over enrolled on the T Levels for Adults pilot programme beginning in September 2022.	01 Aug 2022	31 Dec 2024
385	Multiply Programme	This code is used to identify learners undertaking Multiply funded provision which is adult numeracy up to L2	01 Aug 2022	31 Mar 2025
386	Flexi-Job Apprenticeship Agencies (FJAAs)	This code is used to identify Apprenticeships where the apprentice is directly employed by the FJAA who then places them with a host employer.	01 Aug 2022
387	SME Apprenticeship Brokerage Pathfinder	This code is used to identify Apprenticeships where the apprentice is directly employed as a result of Brokerage contractor activity.	03 Oct 2022	02 Oct 2025
388	Adult Education Budget procurement 2023	This code should be used for all learning aims on the standalone procured AEB contracts that were awarded in July 2023 and started in August 2023. This code is required to distinguish these contracts from 2017 and 2021 procured contracts and from grant-funded providers. The code is used by the funding calculation and miscoding will affect payments.	01 Aug 2023	31 Jul 2025
389	LSIF – Local Skills Improvement Fund – Additionality	Use this code to capture delivery where learners have benefitted from access to LSIF funded facilities/equipment. This will enable the tracking of learners and courses, funded via non-LSIF route, that have accessed/used facilities and/or equipment that has been LSIF funded.	01 Sep 2023	31 Mar 2026
390	LSIF – Local Skills Improvement Fund – Delivery	Use this code to capture learners that were funded by Local Skills Improvement Fund (LSIF). This will enable the tracking of which learners and courses were funded through LSIF funding but not funded through the ILR.	01 Sep 2023	31 Mar 2026
391	Earnings Threshold	This code is used to identify learners earning below the earnings threshold (as defined in the Adult Skills Fund funding rules) from 1 August 2024.	01 Aug 2024
392	LDD Apprenticeships English and Maths flexibilities	This code is to identify and count the numbers of LDD apprentices who have the new flexibility to study the lower level of English and Maths qualification as part of their apprenticeship.	01 Aug 2017
393	Accelerated delivery	To identify higher education courses where the number of academic years applicable to the course is at least one year fewer than would normally be the case for that course (e.g. first degree completed in two years instead of the usual three, or an HND completed in 12 months instead of the usual two years) or a course of equivalent content leading to the grant of the same or an equivalent academic award. A variety of terms are in use for accelerated qualifications including 'fast-track', 'two-year', 'compressed', 'time-compressed', 'condensed' and 'intensive'.	01 Aug 2024
394	Multiply Randomised Control Trials	To identify Multiply activity, funded through the Randomised Control Trial element of the programme	01 Sep 2024	31 Mar 2026
395	Project S Pilot for Adult Skills Fund Providers	To be used by ESFA funded Adult Skills Fund providers who wish to exercise flexibilities as part of the DfE's Project S Initiative.	01 Aug 2024
396	Project S Pilot for Skills Bootcamps	This code is used to identify learners aged 19 and above enrolled onto Skills Bootcamps under the Project S pilot from August 2024 – July 2025.	01 Aug 2024
397	Supported Internship Pilot	To be used where a learner is taking part in the Supported Internships pilot,  which includes learners who are on a Supported Internship but do not have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).	01 Aug 2024	28 Feb 2026
398	Further Education Initial Teacher Training	This code is used to identify learners that are either:  - undertaking a higher education course at level 5 and above based of initial teacher training that prepares teachers to work in the FE and Skills sector in England, OR   - undertaking the Learning and Skills Teacher apprenticeship.	01 Aug 2024
399	No external contribution to cost	The Tailored Learning course is fully-funded with no external contributions made to the cost of the course	31 Jan 2025
400	Employer contributed to cost	A contribution to the cost of the Tailored learning provision is made by the employer.	31 Jan 2025
401	Learner contributed to cost	A contribution to the cost of the Tailored Learning provision is made by the learner.	31 Jan 2025
402 - 500	Unassigned codes for new initiatives