How T Levels are funded

This information is primarily for those providers selected to deliver #TLevels 

Purpose

This information is for providers selected to deliver T Levels from 2021 to 2022. It explains how we will fund T Levels. The scope includes funding for 16 to 19-year old students and students up to age 24 who have an Education, Health and Care Plan. This information should be read in conjunction with the ESFA 16 to 19 Funding Guidance.

A T Level is a Level 3 study programme, which has been approved by the Institute of Apprenticeships and Technical Education under sections A2DA and A2DB of the Apprenticeships Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009.

How T Level funding is different from the way we fund 16 to 19 study programmes

We are building on the existing arrangements in order to distribute T Level funding for 16 to 19-year-olds, rather than design a new separate system. This means adjusting the current funding system so that it funds T Levels as well as existing 16 to 19 study programmes. There are a number of differences and additional elements that T Level students will attract, or where the rate for an existing element is higher for T Levels. We have introduced:

• four new funding bands – because T Levels will be larger than standard study programmes and will be of different sizes
• funding based on the hours over 2 years – because T Levels will be 2-year programmes
• consistent funding for 18-year olds – because T Levels have fixed hours
• industry placement funding at a flat rate of £550 – with half paid in the first year and half in the second
• additional disadvantage funding to reflect the additional hours and demands of T Levels

As each T Level carries an English and maths exit requirement, we will not apply the maths and English Condition of Funding.

Background

As set out in the government response to the T Level funding consultation published in June 2019 and supported by the majority of the respondents, we plan to build on the existing arrangements in order to distribute T Level funding for 16 to 19-year olds, rather than design a new separate funding system, so that we can maintain a simple, fair, efficient and transparent funding system.

This will mean adjusting the current funding system so that it funds T Levels alongside existing 16 to 19 study programmes.

Funding formula for T Level funding

The diagram below shows the national funding formula for 16 to 19 funding that will apply from 2020 to 2021, adjusted for T Levels. Each element of funding for T Levels that is either additional to study programmes, or where the rate or operation is different is detailed below.

Student numbers

As T Levels are new there is no historical delivery to determine how many students to fund for T Levels for the 2021 to 2022 academic year allocations. We do not want funding to be a barrier to the introduction of T Levels. Therefore, in the early years we will be basing T Level student numbers on a planned figure agreed with providers.

For the 2021 to 2022 academic year we are using the T Level student numbers submitted by providers in October 2020, based on planned recruitment in autumn 2021. Where necessary, as outlined in the section below for under/over delivery we will update this figure in autumn 2021.

We will keep this approach under review and confirm from when we will apply lagged student numbers to T Level students.

T Level students will, in the main, be students who would otherwise have taken existing courses. Therefore, the funding of planned T Level student numbers will not affect a provider’s overall allocation of student numbers – only the bands in which they will be funded. The overall lagged student numbers approach as calculated for any other academic year will apply for 2021 to 2022 and will still be used as the basis for the allocation.

Only students enrolled with an eligible T Level provider can attract additional T Level funding.

Funding bands

Because T Levels will include more teaching hours and be more prescriptive in the content than study programmes, we are adding 4 larger funding bands to the existing 5 bands. T Level students will be allocated to the appropriate funding band. Table 1 illustrates the average and minimum planned hours, along with the funding rates for each of the bands.

The rates shown here and throughout the document are the 2020 to 2021 funding rates.

Table 1 average and minimum hours and funding rate for each band

	Average planned hours	Minimum planned hours required for the band	Funding rate (2 years)
Band 6 – small T Levels	1250 hours	1100 hours	£8,726
Band 7 – medium T Levels	1450 hours	1300 hours	£10,122
Band 8 – large T Levels	1600 hours	1500 hours	£11,168
Band 9 – very large T Levels	1750 hours	1650 hours	£12,216

For 2021 to 2022 academic year

Size of wave 1 T Levels and funding bands

The size of the first 3 technical qualifications were published in April 2020, the detail is available on the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) website. In order to create the figures in the table below, we have assumed that 150, employability, enrichment and pastoral (EEP) hours, as outlined in the T Level funding consultation document, will also be completed in each T Level. This places the T Levels for delivery from 2020 to 2021 in the following bands.

Table 2

T Level/Specialism	GLH	Funding Band
Design, surveying and planning
Civil engineering	1350	7
Surveying and design for construction and the built environment	1350	7
Building services design	1350	7
Hazardous materials analysis and surveying	1350	7
Digital production, design and development
Digital production, design and development	1350	7
Education and childcare
Assisting teaching	1064 to 1066	6
Early years educator	1155 to 1159	6

For Education and Childcare:

Early Years Educator: there is, an expectation that 100 additional hours, as detailed below, should be delivered as part of the necessary observation on the industry placement, and these additional 100 hours for this T Level only should be counted as ‘planned hours’ for purposes of providers planning students’ programmes and completing the ILR / schools census.

The Education and Childcare Technical Qualification specification states,

Providers must:

• plan placements of 750 hours over the 2-year TQ delivery period
• ensure students complete a minimum of 415 placement hours, of which 100 must be guided learning hours on placement to reflect the time needed for students to develop the skills and knowledge required and for formative assessment to take place to demonstrate success

Once the 100 hours for the observation are added, the Early Years specialism of the Education and Childcare T Level, is above the minimum hours for band 6, and will be funded at band 6 from 2021. The Assisting Teaching specialism will also be funded at band 6 from 2021 although, as set out below, providers will now need to ensure they deliver the minimum 1100 hours for band 6.

Assisting Teaching even after the EEP hours are included, the T Level is below the minimum hours for band 6, providers will need to ensure they deliver the minimum 1100 hours for band 6, by either adding additional qualification hours or EEP.

Size of Wave 2 T Levels and Funding Bands

The information at Table 3 shows the funding bands for wave 2 T Levels based on the latest information received from the Awarding Organisations for delivery in 2021 to 2022. To determine the funding band we also include 150 hours of Employability, Enrichment and Pastoral (EEP) support.

The final funding bands in subsequent years for these T Levels will be announced in due course, taking into account EEP and any additional requirements. If as a consequence of the T Level being placed in a lower band than the one identified below, when the size is finally confirmed, there would not be a change to the funding for 2021 to 2022 allocations. It will change from 2022 to 2023, including for a student’s second year, where they commenced in 2021 to 2022.

Table 3

	Funding Band
Health
Supporting healthcare specialism
Supporting the adult nursing team	6
Supporting the midwifery team	6
Supporting the mental health team	6
Supporting the care of children and young people	6
Supporting therapy teams	6
Healthcare science
Pharmacy service	6
Assisting with healthcare science	6
Science
Technical: Laboratory sciences	7
Technical: Food sciences	7
Technical: Metrology sciences	7
Digital business Services
Data technician	7
Digital support services
Digital infrastructure	7
Network cabling	7
Digital support	7
On site construction
Carpentry and joinery	6
Plastering	6
Bricklaying	6
Painting and decorating	6
Building services engineering
Electrotechnical engineering	7
Electrical and electronic equipment engineering	6
Gas engineering	7
Protection systems engineering	6
Plumbing and heating engineering	7
Heating engineering and ventilation	7
Refrigeration engineering and air conditioning engineering	7

Until lagged student numbers and funding factors are applied to T Level students, the current methodology for distributing lagged student numbers across the funding bands will not apply for the additional T Level students. Each T Level student will be placed in the appropriate band.

For example, if a provider has lagged students of 1,000 distributed across the current funding bands as shown below, and the ESFA has agreed with the provider delivery of 40 T Levels in 2021 to 2022, the distribution across the funding bands will be as shown in table 4 below:

Table 4 example – distribution of students across funding bands

Existing funding band	Lagged students distributed across current funding bands	New funding bands	Lagged students with distribution across funding bands including T Level bands
—–	—–	Band 7	40
—–	—–	Band 6	40
Band 5	500	Band 5	420
Band 4	200	Band 4	200
Band 3	100	Band 3	100
Band 2	100	Band 2	100
Band 1	100	Band 1	100
Total	1000	Total	1000

Planned hours and funding bands

In circumstances where a T Level is allocated to the lowest T Level band (band 6) but (due to the size of the qualification), students’ programmes have a lower number of planned hours (including qualification and employability, enrichment and pastoral (EEP) hours) than the minimum of 1100 hours for band 6, providers will need to deliver additional EEP or qualification hours/teaching to meet the minimum hours for the band (and therefore attract the funding for that).

If they don’t meet the minimum hours, they will only receive funding for the existing student programme band 5. The planned hours that the provider will record will be for the technical qualification and the non-qualification elements of the T Level. The non-qualification elements will not include hours for any Maths and English delivery or the industry placement but it will include EEP. It is that planned hours total that will be used to determine whether the planned hours fall below the minimum hours for a T Level in the circumstance described above.

We expect that providers will deliver at least the minimum hours for all students but in exceptional circumstances it may be appropriate to offer less, for instance where a student has significant, relevant prior learning. In those instances, the appropriate planned hours must be recorded, and where the planned hours are below the minimum for the T Level we will fund at the appropriate lower band.

Where this results in the student being recorded in band 5, where all the components of the T Level are recorded, all the additional features of a T Level will be retained, such as the same rate for 18-year-old and industry placement funding.

The retention factor

T Levels will be recorded as a 2-year programme, with retention calculated on an annual basis. When students are on a 2-year programme and they complete the first year, they will be counted as retained in that academic year. We define completing the first year as being in learning on the last working day in June. The same principle applies in the second year.

Transfers

We will use the core aim that the student is recorded on at the end of the academic year, to calculate funding factors and bands for future years. End year data will be used to identify what T Level the student is enrolled on. If during the first year a student transfers from one T Level to another, it will be the latest T Level aim that will count. Transfers from one T Level to another are not possible after the end of the first year.

Where the transfer is to a study programme, the planned hours recorded for the study programme will inform the distribution to funding bands for a future years’ allocation.

Where a student leaves the T Level during the year to start an Apprenticeship or other programme outside of 16 to 19 study programmes, usual retention principles will apply and the provider would lose 50% of the annual funding rate for that student, as the student will not be classed as having completed their learning aim.

Programme cost weighting

We will continue to use programme cost weightings (PCW) to recognise that some programmes are more costly to deliver than others. There are 6 PCW factors in the 16 to 19 model for 2020 to 2021 (increased from 4 in 2019 to 2020).

Table 5: programme cost weighting factors for 2020 to 2021

	Weighing value
Base	1.0
Low	1.1
Medium	1.2
High	1.3
Very high	1.4
Specialist	1.75

For 2021 to 2022 we will apply the same PCW as for study programmes. We will calculate the PCW from 2019 to 2020 data from the sector subject area (SSA) tier 2 classification of the core aim for students on vocational qualifications. Full details for the programme cost weightings by SSA for 2020 to 2021 will be included in the funding guidance page on GOV.UK.

A review of PCW is currently being undertaken and this may make a difference to the weightings that apply to delivery from 2021 to 2022 and beyond.

16 to 19 funding: Level 3 programme maths and English payment

This additional maths and English funding is provided to support the delivery of maths and English to those students on substantial level 3 study programmes (including T Levels) who have not yet attained a grade 9 to 4 GCSE or equivalent in either or both of these subjects.

The full details for how the funding will be applied is included in the guidance on GOV.UK.

Disadvantage funding

The disadvantage factor that we will apply to T Level students works in a similar way as for other 16 to 19 students, with 2 elements:

• block 1: economic deprivation, based on the home postcode of the student
• block 2: prior attainment in GCSE English and maths at age 16

Block 1: economic deprivation

Disadvantage block 1 funding is based on where students live, in order to determine whether disadvantage funding should be allocated and at what level. To do this we look up their home postcode in the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD). The IMD is an official government index that tells us how deprived areas are, based on education, crime, health, employment, and income statistics. We then assign an uplift to those students who live in the 27% most deprived areas of the country. Details for how the factor is calculated are included in the 16 to 19 funding guidance.

The calculation of the overall economic deprivation factor is weighted based on individual students and their historic programme size. Because T Levels have more hours than students on study programmes, this factor is applied to a higher level of funding which means that the allocation will generate a higher block 1 funding amount.

Block 2: prior attainment

Disadvantage block 2 provides funds to support students with additional needs including moderate learning difficulties and disabilities. As a proxy for identifying these students we use low prior attainment in maths and English.

Low prior attainment is defined as not achieving English and/or maths GCSEs at grades A* to C or grades 9 to 4 by the end of year 11 (typically age 16).

Each instance of a student not having achieved a maths or English GCSE at grade C/4 or above is counted. This means that a student who does not have this grade in both GCSEs will be counted twice for the block 2 uplift. We will calculate block 2 funding for T Levels as part of the overall block 2 calculation for the institution. We will therefore multiply the T Level student number by the institution’s overall instance per student figure to determine the disadvantage block 2 funding for T Level students, in the same way as we do for full- or part-time study programme students.

The funding rate for block 2 disadvantage for T Level students will be £650, which is higher than for study programmes in recognition that this is a large, demanding programme and additional support will be needed for students with special educational needs and disabilities, including when they are on an industry placement.

Table 6 example: how the number of instances of disadvantage block 2 will be calculated for T Level students

Total number of students	Number of instances for maths and English	Instances per student	T Level students	Number of instances of block 2 funding for T Level students
1000	350	0.35	40	14

Each instance will be funded at £650, so a T Level student, without both maths and English by the end of year 11, would attract £1300.

Large Programme Uplift

T Levels will be demanding programmes, however there could be a small number of students that will want to take an A or AS level alongside their T Level. We will provide funding for high attaining students who may want to take an A/AS level alongside their T Level through the Large Programme Uplift. T Levels are the only programmes where an AS level taken alongside can be eligible for the large programme uplift.

As the large programme uplift is funded on a 3-year lagged basis, for 2021 to 2022 academic year it is calculated using historical data for attainment from 2018 to 2019 academic year. This data is used to identify the number of students eligible for the large programme uplift. This means students starting a T Level in 2021 to 2022 that qualify for the LPU when they complete it in 2022 to 2023 will attract additional funding in 2024 to 2026.

A/AS levels (excluding general studies and critical thinking) taken alongside T Level programmes may qualify for the large programme uplift.

A student must achieve a minimum merit grade on their T Level programme and minimum grade B on their A/AS level (or minimum grade C for further maths) to qualify.

Additionally, any A /AS levels taken alongside a T Level must offer demonstrable additional content that is relevant to the student’s programme and which is not already covered by their T Level qualification (including occupational specialism) content.

Qualifying AS levels taken alongside a T Level programme will attract payment for 1 year reflecting that they are usually taken over 1 year.

Qualifying A levels taken alongside a T Level programme will attract payment for 2 years reflecting that A level qualifications are usually taken over 2 years.

The uplifts for T Level programmes are paid for either 1 or 2 years depending on whether it is for an AS level or an A level, as indicated below.

10% paid for 1 year	A T Level programme with at least a merit grade plus one AS level (other than General Studies and Critical Thinking) at grade B or AS level further maths at grade C
10% paid for 2 years	A T Level programme with at least a merit grade plus one A level (other than General Studies and Critical Thinking) at grade B or A level further maths at grade C
20% paid for 1 year	A T Level programme with at least a merit grade plus more than one AS level (other than General Studies and Critical Thinking) at grade B or AS level further maths at grade C
20% paid for 2 years	A T Level programme with at least a merit grade plus more than one A level (other than General Studies and Critical Thinking) at grade B or A level further maths at grade C

It is very unlikely that a student would take an AS Level and an A level in different subjects as well as a T Level therefore, students taking a combination of AS and A levels will get the uplift appropriate to the qualifying A level(s) only.

Advanced maths premium

We are supportive of high attaining students who want to take core maths or maths A level alongside their T Level. The advanced maths premium announced in 2017, will mean there is funding for this where providers are expanding the number of students taking level 3 maths, including T Level students.

Funding industry placements within T Levels

Industry placements are a compulsory element of the T Level. Placements are to be delivered in line with the industry placements quality assurance guidance, due to be published later this spring. In the meantime, please see the published standards and principles that apply to industry placement Capacity and Delivery Funding. We will fund industry placements at £275 per student for each of the 2 years of the T Level. Payments will be allocated for the T Level student numbers agreed with providers.

Where a provider also has an allocation of the Industry Placement Capacity and Delivery Fund (CDF) a corresponding reduction will be made to the number of students funded through the CDF. For example, a provider with 100 places funded through the CDF and an allocation of 40 T Level students will be allocated placement funding for the 40 T Level students in their mainstream allocation and 60 places through CDF.

Under/over delivery against funded T Level student numbers for 2021 to 2022

Having set the allocation based on planned T Level student numbers, we will then use the first data return of the year (R04/2021 Autumn census) from the Individualised Learner Record (ILR) and the school census, to assess actual enrolments against the T Level numbers that we included in the allocation and make any necessary adjustments to the allocation. We will also check the T Level student numbers recorded in R04/2021 Autumn census against the final numbers recorded in year-end data (R14/2021 Autumn census).

In instances where providers over recruit on their T Level student numbers; as there will be no threshold for growth in T Level student numbers, we will provide funding for all additional T Level students within each band.

A revision to the number of students in the appropriate band and corresponding reduction to band 5 numbers will be made and the allocation re-calculated and re-issued. The allocated student number will not be increased, and any increase in overall student numbers delivered will be dealt with through the exceptional in-year growth process.

Table 7 example: showing the distribution across funding bands where there is recruitment above the planned number of students to T Levels

	Band 6	Band 7	Band 5	Total students in allocation for all bands
Agreed T Level student numbers for 2021 to 2022	40	30	450	1000
T Level students in data return in autumn 2021	50	30
Revision – increase in band 6 student numbers and reduction in band 5 (overall lagged student numbers remain constant)	50	30	440	1000

If providers under recruit on their T Level student numbers, as we recognise that providers will have planned and committed expenditure for delivery of the T Level student numbers previously agreed, there will be an under-delivery tolerance of 40%, of student numbers against each T Level funding band.

For any under delivery up to that level, funding would not be recovered. Where under delivery is above 40% only the funding for students above 40% within each T Level funding band will be recovered.

For example, if the provider has 40 students in band 6 and under delivers by 15, T Level student numbers for that band would not be reduced as 15 students out of 40 is less than 40%. However, if they under delivered by 20 students in band 6 (which would be 50%) the number of students above the threshold (4) would be reduced in the T Level band 6 and the corresponding number of band 5 students will be increased.

This means that those students would revert to being funded as full-time band 5 students. Therefore, the difference in funding between band 6 and band 5 and the additional funding for industry placements, would be removed, other additional funding that is paid for T Level students will also be removed including the additional funding that is only paid for T Level students.

Table 8 example: showing distribution across funding bands for under recruitment below the threshold, in one of the bands.

	Band 6	Band 7	Band 5	Total students in allocation in all bands
Agreed T Level student numbers for 2021 to 2022	40	40	460	1000
T Level students in data return in autumn 2021	25	40
No revision	40	40	460	1000

Table 9 example: showing distribution across funding bands where there is under recruitment above the threshold in one of the bands

	Band 6	Band 7	Band 5	Total students in allocation in all bands
Agreed T Level student numbers for 2021 to 2022	40	40	460	1000
T Level students in data return in autumn 2021	20	40
Revision	36	40	464	1000

Table 10 example: showing distribution across funding bands where there is under recruitment above the threshold in both bands

	Band 6	Band 7	Band 5	Total students in allocation in all bands
Agreed T Level student numbers for 2021 to 2022	40	40	460	1000
T Level students in data return in autumn 2021	20	20
Revision	36	36	468	1000

Table 11 example: showing distribution across funding bands where there is no delivery in one band and over delivery in another

	Band 6	Band 7	Band 5	Total students in allocation in all bands
Agreed T Level student numbers for 2021 to 2022	40	40	460	1000
T Level students in data return in autumn 2021	0	90
Revision	16	90	434	1000

If a provider fails to deliver any T Levels at all: all T Level funding will be removed, and full-time student numbers returned from the higher band to band 5. This will result in all T Level funding being removed from the allocation and any reduction in funds being recovered from future payments, (such as, the provider will return to being funded for 1000 students overall with no additional T Level funding).

Table 12 example: showing the revision to distribution across funding bands where there is no T Level enrolment

	Band 6	Band 7	Band 5	Total students in allocation in all bands
Agreed T Level students for 2020 to 2021	40	40	460	1000
T Level students in data return in autumn 2021	0	0			No T Level student enrolled
Revision	0	0	540	1000

We will keep under review the approach for over/under delivery of agreed T Level student numbers for future years.

Exceptional in year growth in overall student numbers

Should recruitment to T Levels result in an overall increase in student numbers (above that used for the 2020 to 2021 allocation) then the normal exceptional in year growth process, which recognises total student enrolments in excess of lagged student numbers, would apply. This process is subject to affordability.

How to record T Levels

Below is a summary of the information providers must return in their 2021 to 2022 data returns for T Level students. More detail can be found in the guidance published for the ILR and Autumn School Census data collections.

T Level programmes have a number of mandatory components:

1. Programme Aim – every T Level programme must have a programme aim (ZPROG001) spanning the entire duration of the programme.

2. T Level qualification – this is the main technical qualification of the programme covering the core and specialist content. This qualification must be recorded for each T Level student at the beginning of their programme and should be recorded as the student’s core aim.

The 3 T Level qualifications approved for teaching from Autumn 2020 are:

60358294 – T Level Technical Qualification in Education and Childcare (Level 3) (delivered by NCFE)

60358324 – T Level Technical Qualification in Digital Production, Design and Development (Level 3) (delivered by Pearson)

60358300 – T Level Technical Qualification in Design, Surveying and Planning for Construction (Level 3) (delivered by Pearson)

3. Occupational Specialism – every T Level student must choose an occupational specialism as part of their T Level programme. Although not a qualification in its own right it is important that providers record the occupational specialism each student undertakes as they will determine the funding band and PCW of the T Level programme. We have set up learning aim class codes for each occupational specialism for 2020 to enable clear recording. The student’s occupational specialism must be confirmed and recorded in data by the end of the student’s first academic year on their T Level programme.

4. T Level industry placement – every T Level student must undertake a substantial industry placement and this should be recorded using the learning aim ZWRKX003. This learning aim reference is specifically for T Level industry placement activity.

5. T Level planned hours – planned hours for the whole programme should be recorded against every T Level student at the start of their programme. In the ILR these are recorded in the planned hours field against the T Level programme aim and in the census are recorded in the T Level qualification and T Level non-qualification hours fields.

Providers must also ensure that all learning aims delivered as part of a T Level programme are recorded with the T Level programme type 31.

Audit and monitoring

T Levels, including their integrated industry placement, will be funded as an integral part of the 16 to 19 national funding formula and will be subject, on a sample basis to planned routine assurance reviews, alongside 16 to 19 study programmes. Our assurance review approach will be developed to focus on areas of funding risk and will supplement data validation or analysis work. Further details on the audit and monitoring approach for T Levels will be published as part of the mainstream audit approach.

	Band 6 – Small T Levels	Band 7 – Medium T Level
Minimum planned hours required for the band	1100 hours	1300 hours
Funding rate for the band	£8,726 (paid at £4,363/year)	£10,122 (paid at £5,061/year)
Planned hours recorded by the provider for a T Level assigned to band 7 – which is below minimum for the band		1200 hours
Revised funding rate based on recorded planned hours		£8,726 (paid at £4,363/year)

Students that start their T Level part way through the year

We anticipate that students will commence a T Level at the beginning of the academic year. There may however be some students who have sufficient prior learning that the provider considers it is in the best interest of the student to join a group part way through the year rather than wait until the next year. In these instances, the total planned hours for the length of the T Level should be recorded, and we will calculate the level of funding that will apply to those planned hours. This funding will then be spread over the length of the T Level programme in a similar way that applies to part year study programmes.

Students undertaking a T Level programme and a study programme in the same funding year

The ESFA will not fund students to take more than one full-time study programme or the equivalent in multiple part-time programmes in one institution in one funding year.

We expect students to be undertaking a study programme or a T Level programme in one funding year and not both.

If in exceptional circumstances a student does progress from a study programme to a T Level part way through the funding year they will be funded as per any other T Level student generating a full year’s worth of T Level funding in year 1 and in year 2.

If the student then continues their T Level into year 3 due to the late start in year 1 there will be no further funding for year 3.

Transition programme	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Total funding
T Level	Whole of year 1 funded at T Level rate	Whole of year 2 funded at T Level rate	Not funded
	£5,061	£5,061	£0	£10,122

Funding for T Level Transition Programme

Delivery of the Transition Programme is expected to be through the standard study programme funding system and rates as set out in the T Level Consultation (November 2018) and the Government response (June 2019).

We also intend to apply programme cost weight (PCW) to students on the T Level Transition Programme. However, these will be applied on a lagged basis so will not affect funding allocations until 2022 to 2023.

We intend to apply the same PCW to students doing the Transition Programme in each route and will use the PCW applied to the relevant T Level(s) to determine these route-based PCW.

Information on the specific PCW that will apply to Transition Programme students will be provided in future funding guidance. It will therefore be important for providers to record the correct core aim for Transition Programme students, as set out in the Provider Support Manual and the school census.