What is a Personal Learning Account?
The PLA Programme provides support across Wales for eligible individuals to gain higher level skills which will enable them to access a wider range of job opportunities and/or gain employment at a higher level within priority sectors.
What are the eligibility requirements?
Your eligibility will be checked when you apply.
You must:
- Live in Wales
- Be 19 years old or over
In addition, you must meet at least one of the following criteria:
- Employed (including self-employed) and earning under the median income (£30,596 ), or
- Workers on zero hours contracts, or
- Agency staff, or
- Offenders on day release
- In addition, full-time carers (paid or non-paid) may be offered PLA funded provision where there is capacity on existing courses (i.e. infill).
You won’t be eligible if when you apply you are:
- Under the age of 19 or
- Attending school, college, or university full-time as a pupil or student or
- In Welsh Government funded Work Based Learning or
- An ineligible overseas national or
- In receipt of an Assembly Learning Grant or Education Maintenance Allowance or
- Unemployed (you do not have a contract of employment)