LARS Funding & Validity Change Signals
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from $5.00 / 1,000 lars funding or validity signals
LARS Funding & Validity Change Signals
Track official LARS learning aim and apprenticeship standard funding and validity changes.
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from $5.00 / 1,000 lars funding or validity signals
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Tracks meaningful changes in the Department for Education's official Learning Aim Reference Service (LARS), rather than returning a directory dump. It is intended for training providers, apprenticeship operations teams, funding-data teams, and monitoring workflows.
Official source and licence
The Actor downloads the current official LARS CSV ZIP from Find a learning aim downloads. It reads LearningDelivery, Validity, Funding, Standard, StandardValidity, and StandardFunding. The page states that content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Signals
Supported: NEW_LEARNING_AIM, AIM_NO_LONGER_VALID, VALIDITY_START_CHANGED, VALIDITY_END_CHANGED, FUNDING_STATUS_CHANGED, FUNDING_RATE_CHANGED, NEW_APPRENTICESHIP_STANDARD, STANDARD_WITHDRAWN, TITLE_CHANGED, LEVEL_CHANGED, and FUNDING_EFFECTIVE_DATE_CHANGED. Funding rate and comparable field signals require non-null values on both sides. Withdrawal signals require an official end-date transition; disappearance alone is ignored.
Stable keys are LearnAimRef for learning aims and StandardCode for standards. Normalized full snapshots retain titles, types, levels, validity periods, funding categories, rates and effective dates.
Running
The first live run creates a full baseline and emits zero signals. Later runs diff the complete official state. LARS is updated on a planned maintenance schedule; a weekly schedule is a practical default.
maxItems limits Dataset output only. Filters do not truncate the snapshot. Sample mode uses deterministic before/after fixtures through the production normalizer, diff and filter, never opens production storage, and reports snapshotUpdated: false.
Storage, compute, and limitations
The compressed persistent KVS snapshot contains every normalized entity; each signal is one Dataset item. Live runs download and parse a large ZIP and need substantially more memory and time than sample runs. Source/schema and count-collapse guards prevent snapshot replacement on suspicious input. The Actor reports official reference-data changes; it does not guarantee funding eligibility. Historical comparison begins only after the first successful baseline.
