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WMCA Coding Guidance 2021/2022 - For the funding year August 2021 to July 2022

Sector Gateway / Pre-Employment Training

Those providers delivering a Sector Gateway (SG) programme on behalf of the WMCA will be aware that these are short programmes, usually about two weeks long designed to get Students directly into jobs straight after completion.

An SG programme will consist of the following aims:

  • Main aim
  • Optional employability aim
  • Optional Work Experience
  • Job Outcome aim

In the ILR the main aim will need to be coded as follows:

ILR Name
ILR code
Mandatory
Notes

LearnAimRef

Learning Aim Reference

Y

Must be one of the predefined aims, see below

LSDPostcode

Student Postcode

Y

Students must have a WMCA postcode

EmpStat

11 or 12 Y

Employment Status at the start of the learning aim

FundModel

35 Y  
SOF 112 Y  
DAM 002 N

Required for Procured AEB i.e. All ITP provision and if an activity is part of the Grant Growth Contract award

DAM 023 N

Prevents validation error - Use only if the Students' Benefit Status Indicator (BSI) is null

 

The main aim will need to be selected from one of the following aims:

LearnAimRef

Title

Z0009143

Sector Gateway: Care Worker

Z0009144

Sector Gateway: Employability

Z0009145

Sector Gateway: Logistics

Z0009146

Sector Gateway: Retail and Customer Services

Z0009147

Sector Gateway: Security

Z0009327

Sector Gateway: Stewarding

Z0009148

Sector Gateway: Warehousing

 

If the main aim reference you wish to deliver is not one of the above, please contact the WMCA before you commence delivery of a new programme. Please note, a new aim could take up to a month to appear on LARS.

As part of SG, the provider might wish to deliver an Employability aim within the programme. The aim has already been set up in LARS, and this is how we would like providers to return it in the ILR:

ILR Name
ILR code
Mandatory
Notes

LearnAimRef

Z0009142

Y

This aim must be used if the provider is delivering an Employability aim as part of Sector Gateway

LSDPostcode

Student Postcode

Y

Students must have a WMCA postcode

EmpStat

11 or 12 Y

Employment Status at the start of the learning aim

FundModel

35 Y  

SOF

112 Y  

DAM

002 N

Required for Procured AEB i.e. All ITP provision and if an activity is part of the Grant Growth Contract award

DAM

042 Y

Component Aim of a SG Programme

DAM

023

N

Prevents validation error - Use only if the Students' Benefit Status Indicator (BSI) is null