EMA and the 16 – 19 Bursary
Transitional EMA funding will continue until 2012. Those who applied for EMA in 2009-2010 will continue to receive it at the present rate until end of 2011-12.
Those who applied in 2010-2011 and are in receipt of the top rate (£30) will receive £20 per week in 2011-12 (unless they qualify for Level One Bursary).
16 – 19 Bursary
The new 16-19 Bursary Fund is designed to help support those young people who face the greatest barriers to continuing in education or training post-16.
Young people in care, care leavers, young people in receipt of income support and disabled young people in receipt of Employment Support Allowance who are also in receipt of Disability Living Allowance will be eligible to receive a bursary of £1,200 a year (a Level One Bursary).
Other young people who face financial barriers to participation in education but who do not meet the criteria for Level One may apply for financial assistance and could receive a Level Two or Three Bursary.
Application packs for bursary assistance will be available in September 2011 from the Sixth Form Office.
EMA Information
A payment may be withheld for any of the following reasons:
- If a student misses any lesson without first being granted an authorised absence.
- A student fails to hand in coursework without genuine cause and then after an ‘official warning’ and one new deadline has been issued by the tutor, still fails to hand it in.
- A student persistently turns up to a lesson without the necessary equipment (on more than three separate occasions) eg safety equipment for the workshop, stationery, text books etc and after one ‘official warning’ has been issued by the tutor, continues to do so.
- A student is persistently late (on more than 3 separate occasions) and after one ‘official warning’ has been issued by the tutor, fails to be consistently punctual for a full week.
- A student creates such a disturbance during a lesson that they have to be sent out from the class.
- If students forge EMA cards they will not receive EMA for the amount of weeks they fraudulently received it, until the monies are reimbursed. Students will be at risk of exclusion if they are found to be forging their EMA cards.
If you agree with any of the above reasons, the EMA card must not be signed for that period.
At the end of each week the student will take their card to reception. If the card is fully signed, the receptionist will sign the card off, retain and payment will be authorised and the card filed. If the card is not signed for at least one of the periods, the receptionist will query with the student, as this may result in nonpayment. If the student agrees to the reason the card has not being signed (unauthorised illness, lateness, behaviour, etc) then the receptionist will sign the card to confirm that the student has agreed to nonpayment. The card will be retained for authorisation of nonpayment and filed. If a student disagrees with the decision of non-payment, they must speak to their Sixth Form Director, who will make the final decision, at this point reception will sign off the card appropriately.
If no staff member has been available to sign the card, students can go to reception at the end of that period and the receptionist will authorise attendance.
Students must return their completed card to reception no later than Wednesday of the following week to receive payment.
Authorised Absences
To gain authorised absence, students must telephone no later than 10.00 am on the day of absence:
01642 447090 Normanby
01642 304550 Nunthorpe
