ASSESSING AND EVIDENCING ELIGIBILITY FOR THE SKILLS FIRST PROGRAM. Assessment of eligibility
3.1 The Training Provider must have a clear and documented business process for the determination of eligibility of individuals for training subsidised through the Skills First Program (prior to commencement in training) against the requirements set out in Clause 2 of this Schedule 1. The business process and related documentation demonstrating that appropriate checks have been performed to establish each individual’s eligibility must made be available to the Department (or persons authorised by the Department) for audit, review or investigation purposes.
3.2 The Training Provider must comply with the Guidelines for Determining Student Eligibility and Supporting Evidence.
3.3 Relevant evidence is to be sighted by the Training Provider and a copy of the relevant evidence retained for each Eligible Individual, prior to commencement in training, in accordance with the Guidelines about Determining Student Eligibility and Supporting Evidence.
3.4 The evidence described in the Guidelines about Determining Student Eligibility and Supporting Evidence must be recorded in the form prescribed by the Department or in a form which records the exact information as the form prescribed by the Department and must be made available to the Department (or persons authorised by the Department) for audit, review or investigation purposes.
3.5 Prior to enrolling an individual under the age of 17 years:
a) if the individual has not yet completed Year 10, the Training Provider must sight correspondence or a certificate signed by a Department Regional Director that exempts that individual from school attendance and either:
i) clearly identifies the Training Provider and the training to be undertaken; or
ii) clearly identifies the relevant employer where the student is to undertake an apprenticeship or traineeship; or
b) if the individual has completed Year 10, the Training Provider must sight a completed ‘Transition From School Form’, or correspondence or a certificate signed by the school principal or a Department Regional Director that exempts that individual from school attendance and either:
i) clearly identifies the Training Provider and the training to be undertaken; or
ii) clearly identifies the relevant employer where the student is to undertake an apprenticeship or traineeship.
3.6 Where an individual under 17 years is enrolled in training on the basis that they have been granted an exemption from school attendance to undertake a specific course w...
