Personal Learning Accounts
The Personal Learning Account (PLA) Programme offers fully funded learning to eligible individuals in Wales, helping them gain higher-level skills and qualifications in sectors with skills shortages.
Who is eligible for a Personal Learning Account?
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:
Be employed (including agency or zero-hour contracts) or
Self-employed or
A full-time carer paid or non-paid (where there is capacity on existing courses)
AND your annual basic salary does not go over £34,303 (Updated for September 2025)
(There is no earning cap on the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt)
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)
