Information about financial assurance and financial management of 16 to 19 institutions, including sixth-form and further education colleges that are funded by Education and Skills and Funding Agency (ESFA).
Information about financial assurance and financial management of 16 to 19 institutions, including sixth-form and further education colleges that are funded by Education and Skills and Funding Agency (ESFA).
Apprenticeship funding rules for current and previous academic years.
A list of published funding guides from the ESFA.
Guidance on how to spot errors with your ILR data and how to resolve them.
Guidance for sixth-form and further education colleges on preparing and submitting their financial plan and supporting commentary.
This information allows FE colleges to compare their financial data with national totals and other colleges and organisations.
Template funding agreements and contracts from the Education and Skills Funding Agency.
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) will only fund students to undertake qualifications through one of our funded offers if we have approved those qualifications for public funding. This website contains funding approval information for all of the qualifications we will fund through our qualification offers (except apprenticeships and traineeships).
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) list of qualifications approved for funding for 14 to 19.
Information about the intervention framework for post-16 education and skills providers.
An online search tool for finding learning aim references for qualifications, as well as T Levels, apprenticeship standards, frameworks, and units.
Information for further education and sixth-form colleges when directly enrolling 14 to 16 year olds for academic year 2020 to 2021.
A retired online tool for searching for learning aims - has now been replaced by 'Find a Learning Aim'.
An overview of the National Skills Fund which aims to help adults to train and gain the valuable skills they need to improve their job prospects and support the economy.
Sets out the common standard for the provision of assurance in relation to funding of post-16 providers. Includes guidance on the annual assurance arrangements for sixth-form and further education colleges and their auditors, and provides information on the requirements in place for independent training providers. A supplementary bulletin provides guidance and some further requirements as a result of COVID-19.
The role of qualifications in publicly funded further education.
Qualifications with no enrolments that the Education and Skills Funding Agency will remove funding approval from for new starts, from 1 August 2021.