DSA Administration Charges

Statement for the Academic Year 2011/12

Clear Links’ worker pay rates, on-costs and administration charges are reviewed and calculated prior to the beginning of each academic year. We would expect them to be fixed for the period of that academic year; however we reserve the right to change a price in exceptional circumstances at any time to reflect any increase in the cost to us which is due to any factor beyond our control. (Examples of such might be changes to the NI rate, the cost of CRBs or any relevant changes to legislation.)

A) Support Worker Costs

In line with the guidance in the DfES 2007/2008 STUDENT FINANCE IMPLEMENTATION PROJECT: DISABLED STUDENTS’ ALLOWANCES, dated March 2007 the hourly rates for non-medical help provided through Clear Links Support include the following worker payment amounts and on-costs:

• Hourly rate to worker
• Annual leave/Holiday entitlement per hour worked
• National Insurance

B) Administration Charge

In line with the above guidance and the guidance in the Student Support Update of March 2007 Clear Links Support Ltd has quantified the administration charges associated with the provision of non-medical helpers funded through the Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs). The administration charges are related to advertising, recruiting, training, organising, CRB checking, insuring and paying the non-medical helpers. For the purpose of the calculation we have based the administration charges for the 2011/12 academic year on the costs incurred in 2010/11.

The hourly administration element (B above) for each support type/level is added to the hourly pay related element (A above) to make up the Clear Links Support Ltd hourly charge.