Academies: compliance, funding and payments
Information to help open academies and academy trusts comply with their funding agreement and understand their funding and payments.
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 Handbook
- Academy trust financial management good practice guides
- Setting executive salaries: guidance for academy trusts
- Related party transactions: information for academy trusts
- View my financial insights
- Understanding your data: a guide for school governors and academy trustees
- Academies finance and assurance steering group terms of reference
- Academy trusts: themes arising from ESFA's assurance work
- ESFA investigation publishing policy
Academies financial returns
Support for academy trusts
Academies funding and payments
Information to help academies how much 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.
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.
Academies capital funding
Information about capital funding including the Condition Improvement Fund (CIF).
Last updated 19 February 2020 + show all updates
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Updated to add a link to the new "view my financial insights" service for academy trusts.
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Updated to add more content.
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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
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Added additional funding and compliance items.
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Added academies risk protection arrangement to the collection.
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First published.