Age Criteria Learners must be
• aged 16 and under on 31 st August 2024 to be eligible for help from the Bursary Fund in 2024/2025. Except for the following exceptions: • aged 19-year-old continuing from 23/24. This must be the same programme they started before they turned 19, as long as eligibility continues, or • aged 19-24 year-old with an EHCP Learners over 19 years old are only eligible for discretionary bursary and free meals, not the vulnerable bursary.
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The following groups of learners are eligible to apply for 16-19 Bursary Funds:
• Group One: Vulnerable Young People – up to £1,200 bursary o Learners are awarded the amount of support they need to participate based on the actual costs and not automatically awarded £1,200. • Group Two: Discretionary Bursary – Up to £3530 bursary
The Bursary Fund is not intended to provide learning support – services that are given to learners, for example, counselling or mentoring, or to support extra-curricular or non- compulsory activities that are not essential to the study programme or to provide living costs support. Where a learner does not meet the criteria for 16-19 Bursary, SCL Group will endeavour to support to meet the learner’s monetary need through the utilisation of the SCL Hardship Fund.
Implementation
Eligibility for Group One: A bursary of up to £1,200 per annum for a full-time course (30 weeks or more) is available to learners who are in a defined vulnerable group and have a financial need to enable them to participate in education.
The defined vulnerable groups are learners who are: • in care • care leavers
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