Section 6 - Destination and Progression data
Destination and Progression data
As stated in the Skills Programme WMCA Funding Rules 22/23:
- ‘...As a condition of funding, all destinations and/or progression details are a mandatory requirement for WMCA residents, this includes Community Learning. Providers must limit ‘unknown’ destination reporting. Destination and progression must be detailed in the defined fields within the ESFA ILR...’
As most providers will know, all AEB providers are mandated to populate the student’s destination after they have finished their learning aim otherwise this will cause an ILR error. What we do not expect is this to be populated with ‘Not Known’ or ‘Other’. Many providers automatically default to one of these two destinations as soon as it appears as an error in their rule violations.
WMCA expect all providers to collect and update destination and progression data in the ILR monthly.
Destination data will allow us to test the impact of agreed programmes to ensure we are offering the right provision for our residents and employers in the CA region.
Non-collection and recording of destination data could impact future business cases. WMCA also reserve the right to review allocations or move funding, where we feel the impacts are not being met.
Regardless of whether the provision you are delivering has a job outcome payment attached to it, we expect the student destination and progression entity in the ILR to accurately reflect the student’s journey. Providers must be able to substantiate destinations reported as part of any audit/compliance review.
We will closely monitor this entity in 22/23 and will be speaking to those providers that we feel are using ‘Not known’ or ‘Other’ more than we would expect and ask them to take corrective action. If we are not satisfied with the quality of destination data, then this will be a performance management issue and may affect any growth requests.
Please refer to the Provider Payment and Performance Management framework for more information on destination collection.
Where it relates to an employability programme i.e., SG/SWAP/CG – you will need to record the destination and progression against the programme aims.
Timescales
All Students must receive a Day One outcome that is relevant to their current employment status on exiting the course.
WMCA expect providers to continue tracking Students, however, once a job outcome has been achieved, there is no further requirement to update the destination field.
However, for 13-week sustainment claims, the appropriate LARS code should be applied
While WMCA has no set dates for destination collection. We have included an example of best practice for data collection below.
|
Provision Type |
Day One | 6 week | 13 week | 26 week |
| SWAP | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Sector Gateway | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Construction Gateway | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Unemployed - other | Y | Y | Y | |
| Employed | Y | Y | Y |
How the WMCA Validates Destinations
Destinations will only be collected for residents who have ended their learning period i.e., Completed/Withdrew and where they meet the qualifying days rule as below.
|
Planned length of learning aim |
Minimum qualifying days |
|
168 or more days |
42 days |
|
14 – 167 days |
14 days |
|
Fewer than 14 days |
1 day |
**Please note, the qualifying day rule doesn’t apply to Lot 8 or Skills Bootcamps –completions/withdrawals should ensure the destination and progression field is completed, especially when linked to employment payments.
WMCA has introduced an 8-week rule, to allow providers time to collect the outcome and evidence associated with it. For example, if a student completes on 1st October 2022, we will not include their destination in our data set until 27th November 2022.
WMCA will, however, include any job and education destinations you record at this time to ensure that providers are not penalised by the 8-week rule.
As part of the monitoring and evaluation process, WMCA will monitor destinations monthly however the focus point for discussion will be as below:
- August 2022
- November 2022
- February 2023
- May 2023
- August 2023
Destination definitions
Destination definition will depend on the programme type as listed below.
- Where residents are Unemployed and taking part in pre-employment programmes i.e., SWAP/SG/CG, WMCA will define a positive destination as movement into sustainable paid employment, Apprenticeships would be classed as a progression into paid employment.
- Where residents are Unemployed and taking part in non-pre-employment programmes, WMCA will define a positive destination as progression into sustainable paid employment or a higher level of education. Apprenticeships would be classed as a progression into paid employment.
The movement of residents from one intervention to another, at the same level or lower, would not be classed as an educational progression.
Where resident a is Employed: For the purpose of the ILR, a positive destination is that the student’s employment status remains “Employed” upon completion of the course and that they remain sustainable.
We expect a provider to be able to update us on the progression of employed residents at PMR points.
- These outcomes will include A pay rise, new job responsibilities, A promotion or an increase in hours.
Recording of a positive destination i.e., job/education should only be recorded once a learner has achieved this status and shouldn’t be recorded for ‘intended outcomes’
Where a job outcome claim links to a payment, providers should ensure that they hold the required evidence.
To claim Sustainable payment outcomes, WMCA defines Sustainability as; employment consecutively for 13 weeks or more and working above 16 hours per week.