Financial management for further education providers

Preparing colleges' annual financial statements, financial assurance and accountability requirements and tools to help colleges improve their financial performance. 

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Services

• Advanced learner loans facility requests

  Use the form to submit requests for a new facility or loans bursary for funding year 2025 to 2026.

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Guidance and regulation

• Complete the Care to Learn and 16 to 19 Bursary Fund for defined vulnerable groups funding claim
  • Detailed guide
  • 3 October 2025
  • Department for Education
• College financial handbook
  • Guidance
  • 23 July 2025
  • Department for Education
• College accounts direction
  • Guidance
  • 26 March 2025
  • Department for Education and Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• College corporation financial management good practice guides
  • Guidance
  • 23 September 2025
  • Department for Education and Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Funding claims and reconciliation
  • Guidance
  • 18 July 2025
  • Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education

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News and communications

• Closed financial health notice to improve: The SMB Group
  • 27 August 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Correspondence
• Letter to accounting officers in colleges: 25 June 2025
  • 25 June 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Correspondence
• Financial health notice to improve: Newbury College
  • 25 June 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Correspondence
• Financial health notice to improve: South Devon College
  • 18 June 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Correspondence
• Closed notice to improve: Lakes College West Cumbria
  • 13 June 2025
  • Department for Education
  • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

• The costs of providing levels 4 and 5 in further education
  • 21 December 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Decisions about A level class sizes
  • 29 March 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Funding higher risk organisations and subcontractors
  • 9 January 2025
  • Department for Education and Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency
  • Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Further education colleges in the funding simplification pilot
  • 27 March 2024
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Department for Education