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Student 2019/20 - Learner employment statusLearnerEmploymentStatus

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Student 2019/20

Fields required from institutions in All fields

Learner employment status


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Typeentity
Short nameLearnerEmploymentStatus
Description This entity collects employment status at different times for different types of learner dependent upon the type of learning provision being undertaken.
Applicable toEngland
Coverage

Instances at providers in England where Instance.FESTUMK = 1, 3, 4 and Instance.REDUCEDI = 00 or 01 and Instance.FUNDMODEL = 25 or 82, and (Instance.PLANLEARNHOURS plus Instance.PLANEEPHOURS is less than 540 hours).

Instances at providers in England where Instance.FESTUMK = 1, 3, 4 and Instance.REDUCEDI = 00 or 01 and Instance.FUNDMODEL = 35, 36, 70 or 81.

Instances at providers in England where Instance.FESTUMK = 1, 3, 4 and Instance.REDUCEDI = 00 or 01 and Instance.FUNDMODEL = 99 and Student.BIRTHDTE indicates student is 19 or over excluding where (LearningDeliveryFAM.LEARNDELFAMTYPE = SOF and LearningDeliveryFAM.LEARNDELFAMCODE = 108).

Notes

Which learners and learning aims is employment status data collected for?

  • For 16-19 (excluding Apprenticeships) funded learners, this data is only required for those on a part-time programme of study (less than 540 hours in the teaching year).
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) funded students where Instance.FUNDMODEL = 35, 36, 70, or 81
  • Non-funded Apprenticeships or students aged 19+

LearnerEmploymentStatus.EMPSTAT and LearnerEmploymentStatus.DATEEMPSTATAPP must be completed on all Employment Status records. LearnerEmploymentStatus.DATEEMPSTATAPP indicates the date the employment status was confirmed to apply. It is not necessarily the date on which the employment status changed.

The Employment status monitoring fields required are dependent on what is recorded in LearnerEmploymentStatus.EMPSTAT. Providers should check to make sure that the correct data has been gathered.

When to collect employment status data from learners

Data about a learner's employment status prior to enrolment should be collected in all cases when a learner first enrols with a provider.

Updating employment status records

A learner must not have consecutive Learner Employment Status records that have the same values of Employment status, Employer identifier (including where Employer identifier has not been returned), and Employment status monitoring records (types and codes). Consecutive records with identical values in all of these fields will fail ESFA ILR validation.

Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) funded learners and Non funded learners (including all apprentices)

A new Employment status record should be added if a provider becomes aware of a change to a learner’s employer, employment status or benefit status during their learning or at the start of a new learning aim or programme.

For ESFA funded learners, it is important that the employment status data correctly reflects the learner’s funding eligibility.

Data about a learner’s employment status should be reviewed if the learner progresses to subsequent learning after completing all of the activities on their original learning agreement or plan. If their employment status has changed since previously recorded, then a new Employment status record should be added. If the learner’s employment status is the same as previously recorded, then this does not need to be recorded again.

A learner may undertake several learning aims within a single learning agreement or plan, and there is no need to review or update the employment status record at the start of each new aim.

Apprenticeships and other workplace learning

The employment status of learners undertaking workplace learning should be updated throughout the learner’s programme whenever the employment status or employer changes. It should also be updated if required, for example, if a learner progresses from an Intermediate-level to Advanced-level Apprenticeship.

If the learner is undertaking an apprenticeship and was either unemployed or employyed with a different employer prior to starting their apprenticeship, then a new Employment status record should be added with a date of the first day of learning to indicate the learner is employed and to record the Employer ID of the employer with whom they are doing the workplace training.

The employment status of the learner should be updated if required if it has changed since the previous year.

Traineeships work placements

Data about the work placement employer must be recorded in the Learning Delivery Work Placement entity.

Quality rules
Quality rules to follow
Reason required This entity is defined to hold information about learner employment status. Data about a learner’s employment status is collected to demonstrate how the FE sector is contributing to improving the employability of the learners.
Part of
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrencesunbounded
Schema components
Has parts
OwnerEducation and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)
Version1.1
Date modified2019-12-18
Change management notesCoverage updated to remove reference to Course.COURSEAIM valid entry Z99, Instance.FESTUMK valid entry 5, and Institution.ILRGEN valid entry 1. The 'wrapper' programme is not required as HESA will no longer be generating ILR files.

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