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Academies: compliance, funding and payments

Information to help open academies and academy trusts comply with their funding agreement and understand their funding and payments.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Education
Published:
11 March 2014
Last updated:
24 September 2025
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  1. We have removed obsolete content including ESFA branding and refreshed links and added the link to the Academies trust handbook for the 2025 to 2026 academic year.

  2. We have added the link to funding for 16 to 19 students in this collection page.

  3. We have refreshed this collection to provide a more comprehensive list of GOV.UK pages to support academies and academy trusts.

  4. Updated to add a link to the new "view my financial insights" service for academy trusts.

  5. Updated to add more content.

  6. Added four documents to the collection: Academy trusts: themes arising from ESFA's assurance work; Academy trust financial management good practice guides; Academy trusts: information for new trusts; Related party transactions: information for academy trusts

  7. Added additional funding and compliance items.

  8. Added academies risk protection arrangement to the collection.

  9. First published.

General information

Information to help academies and academy trusts with business-cycle planning.

Academies financial management and governance

Information to help academies understand and comply with their financial management and governance requirements.

Academies financial returns

Support for academy trusts

Revenue funding and payments

Information to help academies how much revenue funding they will receive and when payments are made.

Academies compliance

Information to help academies comply with other aspects of their funding agreements. Reports, letters and notices to improve are in a separate collection.

Academies: making significant changes or closure by agreement

Guidance for academy trusts planning to make organisational changes or close an academy by mutual agreement with the Secretary of State.

New academies information

This section contains information for new academies to help them understand the role of Education Funding Agency and what is expected from academies.

Capital funding and estate management

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