Suffolk Brokerage Funding Levels 2011 -2012
Qualification Credit Framework funding
QCF Mandatory Units (Group A units) £8.50 per credit QCF
Optional units (Group B units) £8.50 per credit QCF
Optional units (Group C units) £20.00 per credit
QCF units can be combined to produce full Diplomas. The maximum funding contribution per Diploma level is stated below:
QCF Diploma Level 2 Health and Social Care £563.50
QCF Diploma Level 3 Health and Social Care £757.50
QCF Diploma Level 5 Leadership for Social Care £1002
Other funding
Short courses £40 per qualification
(manual handling, first aid, food hygiene)
Common induction standards £40
Moving and Handling Train the Trainer £To be agreed
Preparing to Teach in Life Long Learning Sector (PTLLS) UP to £350
Certificate in Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector (CTLLS) Up to £350
ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) Variable on level
please enquire
Delivery of Skills for Care Knowledge Sets Up to £75 per knowledge set
Non-accredited training half day Up to £150
Non-accredited training full day Up to £300
(Restrictions in terms of training provider / material source, candidate eligibility and organisational eligibility apply to all funding. You can get more information about the restrictions by contacting the team at the Brokerage).
For details on how to apply for funding please telephone the team at the Brokerage on 01449 720400
The Suffolk Brokerage directly fund employers who have employees undertaking these qualifications. Employers must be based in or have clients based in Suffolk. To ensure our funding is used to purchase only high quality training we will only fund QCF qualifications delivered by one of our Quality Monitored Training Providers. A list of these can be found on this website in the section Quality monitored Training providers.
We can only fund employers who comply with Skills For Care’s NMDS (National Minimum Data Set) requirements. This means you must have updated your organisational and workforce information before you claim funding in any one financial year. Further details regarding the NMDS requirements can be found in the NMDS section of this website.
Funding is open to all employers who are registered with us. We have a finite amount of funding and as such ensure that all organisations, big or small, have the opportunity to claim funding.
Funding is distributed on a first come first served basis, You, as the employer, will choose a training provider, pay the training provider for the course and claim units/credits back from us as they are completed.
In the situation where more units/credits are claimed for than we have allocation to pay we will prioritise to ensure fairness. The following list is in order of priority:
• Employers who have registered with us at the start of the year advising us of their training requirements will be paid first
• Employers whose candidates have met their unit completion dates will be given priority over late units
• Employers who have already claimed 300 QCF credits and 30 short course / induction units in any financial year will not be paid for further units/ credits unless our total allocation for funding has not been spent.
We will always discuss any problems in hitting unit deadlines and where there are special circumstances we will make exceptions on an individual basis.
Micro employers and direct payment recipients can access our funding in a different way. Please see the Direct Payments page for details.