Foreword
This document sets out the funding rules that apply to all providers of education and training who receive skills programmes funding, including Adult Education Budget funding, Free Courses for Jobs (FCFJ)funding, Multiply and/or National Skills Fund Technical Bootcamp funding for residents residing in the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) area.
Purpose
This document sets out the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) skills programmes coding guidance for the 2022 to 2023 funding year (1 August 2022 to 31 July 2023). The Skills programmes funding rules consist of the Adult Education Budget (AEB) funding rules, the Free Courses for Jobs (FCFJ) funding rules and the National Skills Fund (NSF) Technical Bootcamps funding rules.
Summary of Changes
Student Support Fund
Student Support Fund will be collected monthly via Earnings Adjustment Statement as well as submission of a learner support document to the data team
Level 2 uplift
To support individuals with the opportunity to develop core occupational skills, WMCA has provided a 10% uplift to level 2 qualifications which align with sector propositions for Health & Social Care and Construction from the academic year 2022/23.
DAM Code Matrix
Support on overview of DAM coding
Data Validation
Support on data validation issues
Programme Type
Introduced for 2022/2023, the new Programme Type of Combined Authorities Adult Skills enables providers to group learning aims that are part of a pathway that they are delivering as part of their contracts with the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA).
Using this Programme Type will enable the WMCA to more easily monitor learning aims that each learner is completing as part of their pathway.
For the 2022/2023 year, the following pathways will need to be coded in the ILR using the Combined Authorities Adult Skills Programme Type:
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Sector Gateway / Pre-Employment Training
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Sector-based Work Academy Programme (SWAP)
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Construction Gateway
Skills Bootcamps
Coding and ILR recoding for the Skills Bootcamp submissions.
Changes to submission payments for Skills Bootcamps
Multiply
Coding and ILR recoding for Multiply submissions.