ALP has recently been in dialogue with the LSC regarding reports of profile payments planning to be made for the first part of the new funding year against employer responsive contracts.

In response to these requests for clarification, the LSC contacted us with the following, which was circulated to ALP members earlier this week:
 
“The release for Employer Responsive payments is due for implementation at the end of August but is heavily dependent on data collections and the funding calculation projects, which are due for implementation during mid-august. To ensure that sufficient time is made to test the payment and calculation components of these systems, a contingency has been provided which will make payments based on the provider’s delivery profile. This will be agreed on the provider’s Summary Statement of Activity (SSoA).
 
The contingency has been invoked in order to protect providers and ensure that payments can be made to the agreed timetables in September. The detail of how this will be calculated will be contained in a separate DLF Briefing Note for regions during week commencing 21st July. However, please note that during the first quarter profile it has been agreed to split the payments over the first three months (starting September) 50% / 25% / 25%, rather then by "1/3 1/3 1/3".
 
For provision that is being delivered under sub-contract arrangements, LIS reports will be available and providers may wish to use these to estimate the value of the sub-contractors provision and fund, using this data. All data will be fully reconciled once payment on actuals starts. This will enable providers to make any corrections to sub-contractor payments.
 
In the meantime we are working to implement payment on actuals at the earliest opportunity. However, we do not envisage this contingency being in operation for longer than the first quarter.”

A document forwarded to us responding to recent contact from Graham Hoyle on this subject, from which the above text was taken, can be found below.

 

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