Further education financial management and data collection

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.

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
Introduction to Qualification Achievement Rates (QARs)
- Detailed guide
- 18 June 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
Provider data self-assessment toolkit (PDSAT)
- Guidance
- 12 August 2025
- Department for Education and Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency

Closed notice to improve: Weston College of Further and Higher Education
- 7 October 2025
- Department for Education
- Correspondence
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

Malpractice in vocational and technical qualifications: academic year 2019 to 2020
- 24 August 2021
- Ofqual
- Research
Costs and cost drivers in the further education sector
- 7 February 2020
- Department for Education
- Research
Destinations of KS4 and 16 to 18 (KS5) students: 2018
- 6 February 2020
- Department for Education
- Official statistics
Destinations of KS4 and KS5 pupils: 2017
- 25 February 2019
- Department for Education
- Official statistics
Vocational qualifications archive
- 25 October 2018
- Department for Education
- Official statistics

FE workforce data collection
- 5 February 2020
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 12 June 2019
Developing an insolvency regime for the further education and sixth-form sector
- 27 October 2016
- Closed organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 05 August 2016
Funding higher risk organisations and subcontractors
- 9 January 2025
- Department for Education and Closed organisation: Education and Skills Funding Agency
- Policy paper
Reducing bureaucratic burden: higher education
- 10 September 2020
- Department for Education and Closed organisation: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Policy paper
Improving further education workforce data: call for evidence
- 23 May 2019
- Department for Education
- Call for evidence outcome

Funding allocations to training providers: 2023 to 2024
- 24 September 2025
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Adult skills fund (ASF) postcode files
- 2 September 2025
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Uplift factors and postcode files
- 2 September 2025
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Investigation outcome report: Michael D Akers Management Consulting
- 3 July 2025
- Department for Education
- Transparency
16 to 19 subcontracting data: academic year 2023 to 2024
- 6 May 2025
- Department for Education
- Transparency