Education and Skills Funding Agency

  1. Apprenticeships
  2. Academies: funding, payments and compliance
  3. Learning Records Service (LRS)
  4. Further education funding
  5. Priority school building programme
  6. Hire an apprentice
Apprenticeship ambassador talking to others.

News story

Apprenticeships at WorldSkills UK Live – 15 to 17 November

The National Apprenticeship Service will once again be supporting WorldSkills UK Live, formerly known as The Skills Show, when it takes place at the Birmingham NEC in mid-November.

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News story

Aspire Achieve Advance 3aaa apprenticeship training provider termination of contracts

We have issued notices to terminate contracts with 3aaa.

Image of the National Apprenticeship Awards 2017.

News story

Who will be crowned the rising star of 2018?

Voting has closed to crown the first National Apprenticeship Awards ‘rising star’ of the year.

Academies Accounts Direction

Detailed guide

Academies Accounts Direction

Detailed guidance for academy trusts and auditors on preparing and auditing academy trusts’ annual financial statements.

NAW 2019

News story

National Apprenticeship Week 2019 date announced

The date of the 12th annual National Apprenticeship Week - to take place in 2019 – has been announced and will run from 4 to 8 March 2019.

ESFA annual report and accounts

News story

Sound governance and internal control reflected in the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s (ESFA) first annual report

The ESFA has a sound system of governance and internal control, in its first annual report, which the Comptroller and Auditor General has certified, receiving an unqualified audit opinion.

Latest from the Education and Skills Funding Agency

  1. Academies accounts return
    • Detailed guide
  2. Learner satisfaction survey – sample size calculator
    • Form
  3. Learner satisfaction survey guidance
    • Guidance

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What the Education and Skills Funding Agency does

The ESFA brings together the former responsibilities of the Education Funding Agency (EFA) and Skills Funding Agency (SFA) to create a single agency accountable for funding education and skills for children, young people and adults.

ESFA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Education.

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Documents

Our announcements

  1. Financial health notice to improve: Coulsdon Sixth Form College
    • Correspondence
  2. Financial health notice to improve: North Hertfordshire College
    • Correspondence
  3. See all announcements

Our consultations

  1. Ventilation, thermal comfort and indoor air quality in schools
    • Consultation outcome
  2. See all consultations

Our publications

  1. Academies accounts return
    • Detailed guide
  2. Learner satisfaction survey guidance
    • Guidance
  3. See all publications

Our statistics

  1. FE Choices employer satisfaction survey: 2017 to 2018
    • Official statistics
  2. Apprenticeship vacancies archive
    • Statistical data set
  3. See all statistics

Our management

Eileen Milner
Eileen Milner
Chief Executive, Education and Skills Funding Agency
Mike Pettifer
Director, Academies and Maintained Schools, ESFA
Sue Husband
Director, Employer and Employee Engagement, ESFA
Peter Mucklow
Director, Further Education, ESFA
Keith Smith
Director, Apprenticeships, ESFA
Matthew Atkinson
Director, Provider Market Oversight, ESFA
Kirsty Evans
Associate Director, Adult Funding Operations, ESFA
Béatrice Lightfoot
Director, Central Services, ESFA

Contact ESFA

General enquiries

Ministerial and Public Communications Division
Department for Education
Piccadilly Gate
Store Street
Manchester
M1 2WD

United Kingdom

Contact Form: General enquiries

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Freedom of information (FOI) requests

Ministerial and Public Communications Division
Department for Education
Piccadilly Gate
Store Street
Manchester
M1 2WD
United Kingdom

FOI contact form

Corporate information

Jobs and contracts

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