Bursaries
Prospect Training Services (Glos) Ltd recognise that offering support to learners experiencing financial hardship creates barriers to learning, requires sensitivity and respect for all those concerned. Information relating to applications will be treated confidentially and stored in line with DfE Guidance and GDPR Regulations.
Bursaries are intended to support those learners experiencing financial hardship that creates barriers to learning and allocations will be made to the groups of learners that are listed below:
- Learners in care, care leavers, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, those in receipt of Income Support or Universal Credit and learners receiving Employment Support Allowance who are also in receipt of Disability Living Allowance or Personal Independence Payments will be eligible to receive bursary, or payments in kind up to £1,200 a year depending on need.
- Additional discretionary funding may be granted to learners depending on need and those who are faced with unforeseen changes in their circumstances.
All learners between the ages of 16 and 19 will be entitled to apply for a bursary if they consider that they fall into any of the groups described as above.
Learners eligible to receive a bursary must be aged under 19 on the 31st of August in the academic year in which they start their training programme.
A learner may meet the eligibility criteria above, however, this does not mean that they will automatically be entitled to the fund if there is no financial support required.
For further information on the bursary fund and process, you can access the policy and process by clicking on the following links.