How to Apply

Applications for Care to Learn should be made as soon as possible. Learning must begin before a young person turns 20 if they wish to benefit from the scheme.

For help with an application a young person can contact:

• A connexions personal adviser
• Their college, school or training adviser
• SureStart

Contact your connexions personal adviser (opens in a new window)
Find out more about Sure Start
Contact the Care to Learn Helpline

Before Applying

A young person should ensure they are eligible by checking on the link below.

10 Nov 2008: With immediate effect, the residency criteria detailed on the Care to Learn application form have been withdrawn for the current (2008/09) academic year only.

This should not be taken as an indication that these arrangements will last for any longer than this academic year. Learners must be made aware that residency rules for Care to Learn are under review and that some people may not be eligible for support from September 2009.

· New applicants do not need to complete the question about residency conditions detailed in Part 1 of the form.

· The Learner Support Service will be contacting existing applicants who have had their application refused or queried on residency grounds.

Care to Learn: Do you qualify?

Completing the Care to Learn application form

A young person needs to download and complete an application form.

The form must be completed by and signed by:

• The young person
• The learning provider
• The childcare provider

The young person will need to take their child’s birth certificate or child benefit book for the learning provider to photocopy.

The childcare provider will also need to submit a copy of their OfSTED registration certificate with the application.

Download a Care to Learn Application form from here

What happens after the application is made?

When the Care to Learn team get the signed application form they will check it is fully completed.

If it is then they will write to the young person within 5 days to notify them and the childcare provider of the payments they will receive and when they will receive them.

They will also tell the young person how much travel support will be paid to the first learning provider on their form to help with their transport costs.

If the young person does not provide the information needed to approve the application, it will be returned to them with a request for the missing information. This request may come by email (if the provide an email address) or be sent to them in the post.

Where to send the application form

Care to Learn Team
FREEPOST PLUS RRTB-CBRY-HYJY
Learner Support Service
Darlington
DL1 4WD