NVQ training.?

Our employers,a care home establishment has got a government grant to train all their employees for NVQ2 Health and Social Care.In our new contract it states,if we leave their employment within 2 years,we will have to repay the full cost of the course/training,estimated to be about £500.I would like to know if this is allowed,seeing has they got a grant for all the training.They did not personally pay for the costs,and if the training was not free,we certainly could not afford to pay for it ourselves.So when or if we leave before 2 years we are going to be automatically deducted the cost from our final wage etc.

carli8305

Yes this is legal, they are providing you with a qualification and training while you are in their employment so why should you just be able to go off and possibly use it elsewhere?

The government pay for it providing you stay in that employment, so your employer has to pay them back if you leave within that time, so they recoup the costs from you.

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NO - a colleague did a NVQ4 qualification, and 3 months after he finished he left the company.

NVQs are EASY to do and take no time at all - it took me less than 6 months doing one part time.

jackie m

Yes its true, my daughter works in a care home and was told the same. Everyone working with the elderly even the original home helps have got to do these NVQs. Yes you will have to pay it back if you leave within the 2 years. - 2 years from when you start the NVQ, it will take about a year to complete it and it is hard to do.

D B

yes but if you do not complete the training the carehome has to pay that money back to the government

mik_se7

Im not sure but my girlfriend had the same problem she had to do a catering course to bring her up to a certain level which was funded by the goverment because they had decided that to do her job she must have it and her company also stated 2 years or repay it could be a deal the goverment has with the companys or something like that...

the orical

if they`ve been given a grant to pay for the training even half of it they can reclaim costs that they have paid towards it but if they havent paid a thing they cant chase someone for the money i work for a bus company and the goverment pay for half the cost of taking a pcv licence and put it as have to work there for 2 years but dont ask for a penny if someone leaves after being there for a year

haggis3point5

Think of it this way....
They have applied for this grant, so they can train someone who will work for them ... not leave once the training is over. It's a waste of training. I'm sure the grant fund is limited so they can't just keep applying every time they lose someone and take a new person on.
They see it that you'll have just used them for the training ... so, why not charge you? You might as well have just gone to college.

I'm not saying this is right .... I'm just explaining it.

Bev

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