CALAT Enrolment Form

Please complete all relevant sections.

The name you use must match your documents and will appear on certificates. There may be a charge to change this at a later date.

To help us support you in getting the best out of your course, please complete this section, if applicable.

Disability is defined by the Disability Discrimination Act as:

A physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a person’s ability to carry out normal day to day activities. The disability could be physical, sensory or mental and must be expected to last at least 12 months.

We provide a range of support for learners who have disabilities and learning difficulties. Additional support is also available in the classroom from your tutors, such as 1-1 sessions after class, additional help with assignments, support with English if not your first language, or extra support with English, Maths and study skills, as well as teaching learning strategies including preparing for examinations.

Please talk to your tutors if you have not already approached the Learner Support team at time of enrolment. Whether or not you require support, please provide the following information:

Please advise us at enrolment if you need to bring a support worker with you to your course. If you do not tell us in advance you may be asked to leave the course.

Please tick if any of the following applies to you. If you enrol in person you will be required to sign a self-declaration and show your current benefit confirming you meet one of the following criteria and if it is a qualification course you will need to declare that you are taking the course because it will give you the skills needed to look for work.

If you enrol online random checks will be made by CALAT staff asking for evidence of your benefit. Benefit evidence is required at assessment appointments.

RM= Full fee Remission for qualification courses.
CN= Concessionary fee for non qualification courses.

How we use your personal information (ESFA Privacy Notice)

Further information about use of and access to your personal data, details of organisations with whom we regularly share data, information about how long we retain your data, and how to change your consent to being contacted, please visit: here

How CALAT will use your information in accordance with Data Protection Law

CALAT are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy when you use our services. All your personal data is treated in strict confidence and dealt with in accordance with Data Protection Law in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To ensure that the service you receive is effective, we may need to share your information with our partner organisations. This data sharing, among other things, supports our funding and financial planning; monitoring performance and our educational attainment policy; enables us and our partners to produce statistics and research; determine the destinations of our learners after they have completed courses with us; and evaluate Government- and European-funded programmes. Your personal data may be converted (‘anonymised’) into statistical data in such a way that ensures that you cannot be identified from it .

CALAT collect personal information about you to pass on to the Department for Education and the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). The EFSA’s Privacy Notice is published here. The information collected on your enrolment form is a requirement to fulfil the funding contract with the ESFA and will be retained for 6 years from the point of enrolment.

Your data will also be used to enter you for exams with awarding bodies. CALAT also collect your data to share internally with the Council’s Finance Department to process standing orders and refunds, and to access the Discretionary Learner Support Fund. Anonymised data is also used to report to the CALAT Governance Board, the Council’s Senior Management Teams and Ofsted. Your information may also be shared internally with the Council’s Complaints Team, Business Intelligence Team, the Finance Team and others so that they can carry out their roles and support our service.

Data Protection Law gives you a number of rights to control what personal information is used by us and how it is used by us. Additional information about your information rights is listed in the Council’s Corporate Privacy Policy which can be found on the Council’s website here.

You will be contacted after you have completed your programme of learning to establish whether you have entered employment or gone onto further training.

Your data is stored on a secure database and this form will be destroyed after 3 months.