Skills for Care TSI Funding 2009 - 2010

TSIF 09/10 is now closed for claims

PLEASE NOTE - KEY CHANGES to Short Courses evidence requirements:

This affects Manual Handling, First Aid, ESOL, Food Hygiene. SfC have informed us (September 18th 09) of changes to evidence required for claims. Click Here for details.

Important notes:

1) Skills for Care require an NMDS-SC Registration Number as part of any TSIF claim. In London this will be “G” followed by five, six or seven digits. e g G123456. See further information in Section 11 below regarding updating NMDS information online before claiming.

2) This year (together with another partnership which we have absorbed) we have been allocated 22% of the funding allocated to our partnership last year. We regret that this year funding will need to be allocated on a first come first served basis and we will keep employers updated on availability by e mail. We have been advised by Skills for Care that further finding may be available at a later date.

At this stage we are unable to allocate any new employers to the partnership.

Common Induction Standards (CIS) Claim Form - See section 6 Click here

Managers Induction Form – see section 6 Click here

Learning Disability Qualification (LDQ)Induction Form – see Section 6 Click here

Partnership Form (to join this partnership) – see section 3 Click here

Example unit Summary sheet – single – see section 7 Click here

Example Unit Summary Sheet - Multiple – see section 7 Click here

Short Courses Claim Form see section 6 Click here

Funding Claim Form – see section 6 Click here

To claim A1 assessors qualifications please attach evidence – see section 4


Other Information:

For list of acceptable units see section 5

For example of an invoice see section 8

To make this process simpler, we have listed the type of information below and numbered each section. After this list of 11 sections scroll down to access the detail:

1) Checklist for use when making claims
2) General information
3) Joining the North West London TSIF Partnership
4) Contact information
5) What you can claim for
6) Making claims
7) Examples of NVQ evidence
8) Invoicing
9) Postal charges
10) Frequently Asked Questions
11) National Minimum Data Set ( NMDS-SC) information

PLEASE READ BEFORE SENDING YOUR APPLICATION IN. REMEMBER THAT YOU MUST:

FILL IN AND SEND BY HARD COPY Skills for Care ( SFC ) FUNDING CLAIM FORMS IN DUPLICATE. MAKE SURE THE CANDIDATE’S NAMES & ALL OTHER DETAILS ARE LEGIBLE. IN ADDITION PLEASE E-MAIL A COPY OF THE FUNDING CLAIM FORM TO peterwebb@btinternet.com

SEND ALL NVQ / COMMON INDUCTION STANDARDS/ LEARNING DISABILITY QUALIFICATIONS INDUCTION (LDQ) / MANAGERS INDUCTION / SHORT COURSE EVIDENCE, IN DUPLICATE, (TWO COPIES). WHERE APPLICABLE FORMS MUST HAVE NATIONAL INSURANCE NUMBERS INCLUDED NO TEMPORARY N I NUMBERS, I.E. THOSE BEGINNING WITH “TN” ARE ALLOWED.

WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU SEND COPIES OF EVIDENCE AND KEEP THE ORIGINALS. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ITEMS LOST IN THE POST, OR UNDELIVERED. DO NOT FORGET TO ADD SUFFICIENT POSTAGE TO YOUR ENVELOPE BEFORE POSTING. ITEMS REQUIRING EXTRA POSTAGE WILL NOT BE COLLECTED FROM LOCAL POST OFFICES.

CHECK THAT YOUR EVIDENCE HAS THE NECESSARY DETAILS TO BE ACCEPTABLE (SEE EXAMPLES OF ACCEPTABLE IN SECTION 5 BELOW )

PLEASE DO NOT SEND INVOICES UNTIL YOU ARE ASKED TO DO SO. FUNDING CLAIMS NEED TO BE APPROVED BEFORE INVOICES ARE RAISED. POST INVOICES IN DUPLICATE (OR E MAIL)

The employer “Lead Partner” for the contract is the London Borough of Hillingdon and the project performance will be regularly reviewed by the Lead Partner’s Group. Funding is administered by Yarrow Housing Ltd, as the disbursement agent, but always liaise with Peter Webb of Penn Consultants if queries over a payment arises.

For general information about Skills for Care see www.skillsforcare.org.uk

Please make regular claims, this will help the whole process and speed your payment.

Note: we have 130 employer partners. Because of limited funding this year we regret we are unable to add new employer partners.

During early 2009, details of the 2009/2010 bidding process were made available to all social care employers in North West London. Interested parties where necessary were asked to complete a partnership form Click here to join the North West London Care Consortium TSIF partnership. There is no workforce plan form this year.

TSI Funding provides a contribution to the total cost of training. The funding will be allocated in units and the payment is £70 per unit.

Training provided free cannot be claimed.

The administration of the project for the 2009/20010 year is carried out by Penn Consultants.

Contact:
Peter Webb,
Penn Consultants,
14 The Oaks,
West Byfleet,
Surrey, KT14 6RL
Tel 01932 355598
Fax 01932 341312
Mobile 07956 878901
E mail: peterwebb@btinternet.com

• Common Induction Standards. These must be to the standards set by Skills for Care and organisations may be audited for compliance.
  
• Managers Induction – see www.skillsforcare.org.uk (Insert “Managers Induction” in to the Search box)
  
• Learning Disability (LDQ ) Induction
  
• NVQ units, as per the list of acceptable units available on this website, please Click here
• Accredited Short Courses in Food Hygiene, Moving and Handling and First Aid. Plus ESOL.
• Assessor awards – please contact us for details.

Evidence must be submitted IN DUPLICATE and forwarded to Peter Webb at the address given above (see contacts Section 4). Do not wait until near the end of the contract period – send your evidence at any time.

Your claim must contain:

• A Funding claim form IN DUPLICATE for the year 2009 / 2010 Click here
• Your NMDS-SC Registration number ( see section 11 )

PLUS EVIDENCE OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING:

• 6A -Common Induction Standards Claim Form IN DUPLICATE ( if applicable ) Click here
• 6B - Managers Induction Claim Form ( if applicable ) IN DUPLICATE ) Click here
• 6C Learning Disability Qualifications Framework Induction Form IN DUPLICATE (if applicable ) Click here
• 6D Evidence of NVQ achievement IN DUPLICATE ( if applicable ) signed, printed name and dated by the accredited assessor and internal verifier at the time this was carried out. Such evidence is generally known as “unit summary, or achievement sheets, samples are available in section 7 below but you may use other forms provided all the information is supplied. The assessment and internal verification must have been carried out between 1st Jan 2009 and 10th March 2010.

NVQ evidence must also contain:

• The NVQ Centre name and number
• The Candidates name & signature
• The Candidates registration number
• The Awarding Body ( e.g. City and Guilds, Edexcel, etc)
• The NVQ unit number & description (If these are hand written, please make sure they are legible)

The NVQ evidence may be for individual units, part or complete awards.

If applying for complete awards the unit summary sheets must be supplied. A certificate, or SRF is not acceptable evidence.

Completion of certain NVQ, assessor and verifier units’ or complete awards. - see list of acceptable units below:

Word version Click here

Pdf version Click here

6E Short Courses and ESOL – if applicable IN DUPLICATE.

This year for the first time a claim of one unit can be made for accredited courses in Food Hygiene, Moving and Handling, First Aid and ESOL.

Evidence required for the candidate:
As evidence, to make a claim a certificate for each candidate must be produced. This should be signed by the trainer. If possible, the certificate should be from a recognised, or official awarding body.

Completing the Funding Claim Form:
On the Funding Claim Form (available on the website) that you complete to accompany the claim, these course are listed as a drop down box in the column marked IND.UNIT The N I Number for each candidate is required and this should be on the Funding Claim Form in the box marked Candidate AB No, or Nat Ins.

Evidence required for the trainer:
Evidence to show that the trainer who ran the course is approved by an awarding or official recognising body to deliver that specific learning programme must also be submitted with the claim.

The above covers both in-house and external trainers.

These requirements are presently in draft form from SfC and may change as the claim process develops over the claim year. Please check this website to keep up-to-date with developments.

For further guidance on making claims for short courses and ESOL Click here

For the Claim form for short courses and ESOL Click here. Additional evidence must be supplied with this form.

The evidence of NVQ unit achievement should normally be held in the learners NVQ portfolio. In some cases it may be necessary for the employer to obtain this evidence from the relevant training provider or College of Further Education.
If you carry out NVQ assessments in house ( NVQ 2 / 3 only ) please make sure the internal verifier provides all appropriate dated signatures to support your claim.

For an example of a single unit summary claim form Click here

For an example of a multiple unit summary sheet Click here

Remember you can use other forms if you wish including those provided by your training provider but please make sure all the information is provided as in these examples and as detailed in section 6 above.

YOU MUST NOT send an invoice until your submission has been approved by Skills for Care at Leeds. Invoices sent without approval or for incorrect amounts will be returned to the employer.

Please Note:
The example of an invoice below, shows the detail that you must include in your invoice. Basically, the invoice must have your company name and contact details and the value of the claim that you are making, this will be the figure that has been e-mailed to you. BACS details are also required so that the payment can be made to your company / organisation. Payments cannot be made to individuals. The unit value of £70.00 cannot have vat added to it.

This funding is VAT exempt.

if you are vat registered and you have been advised to include the VAT within the £70.00 unit amount, the invoice must carry a vat number. The address to send the invoice to is included on the sample below.

Click here for sample invoice

Please check with http://www.royalmail.com to make sure that you are using the up-to-date charges.

Items posted with the incorrect rates of postage will not be collected from distant sorting offices and your claim will be lost.

Click Here

Skills for Care require an NMDS –SC Registration number before making any TSI claim. In London this will be “G” followed by five, six or seven digits. e g G123456. You only need to supply this once and not add to every claim

Also the details of the organisational questionnaire of NMDS –SC must have been updated on line after 1 April 2009. This can be done by accessing the web site http://www.nmds-sc-online.org.uk and logging on as an existing user. You will require the user name and password to do this. If you are a new user please access the alternative menu. For help call 0845 873 0129

Employers are also requested to input employee data as this will assist with AQAA returns at a later date for sites that are CQC registered.

For the Skills for Care information about reports and AQAA information Click here