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What courses are classed as further education that still warrant paying child maintenance, my partners daughter has taken Childcare BTEC levels 1 & 2 and Childcare health and social work skills.
Please help thanks
For child maintenance purposes, a child is anyone under 16 or someone between 16 and 19 who: is not, nor has ever been, married or in a civil partnership, and is in full-time non-advanced education.However, if child benefit is still being received, someone under 19 can still be regarded as a child for child maintenance purposes even if they are not in full-time non-advanced education.
Child Benefit
A regular payment made to anyone bringing up children. It is paid for each child who is:under 16 under 19 (under 20 in some cases) and in full-time educationdoing a course that is not higher than A-level or an equivalent standard or on a Government-funded training programme, or•16 or 17 and has recently left school and registered for work or training with the Careers or Connexions Service or something similar.
Hi Jacks
Thank you for your post, I am William the Child Maintenance Options consultant. I understand that you would like to know what courses are classed as further education.
Under the child support legislation, regular child maintenance payments must be made until a child is 16 years old, or 20 if they are in full-time, non-advanced education (A-level or equivalent), or for as long as Child Benefit is being paid.
Education must be full-time (more than an average of 12 hours’ supervised study a week during term time) and ‘non-advanced’. This includes:
GCSEs
A levels
iGCSEs
Pre-U
International Baccalaureate
NVQ/SVQ level 1, 2 or 3
BTEC National Diploma, National Certificate and First Diploma
SCE higher grade or similar
It does not include ‘advanced’ education, eg:
A degree
Diploma of Higher Education
NVQ level 4 or above
BTEC Higher National Certificate (HNC)
Teacher training
For more information about the ways that child maintenance can be set up and access to useful tools and forms online you can visit http://www.cmoptions.org, or if you would prefer a confidential chat you could call the Child Maintenance Options team on 0800 988 0988 (free from a landline).
William
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