Education and Skills Funding Agency

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  3. Learning Records Service (LRS)
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  5. Hire an apprentice
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News story

Apprentices to get jobs boost

New support service launched to help apprentices who have lost their jobs due to the Covid-19 outbreak to find new opportunities.

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News story

ESFA procurement opportunity launching soon for providers to access additional funding to deliver 19 to 24 AEB funded traineeships

We are planning a procurement opportunity so providers can access funding to deliver 19 to 24 adult education budget (AEB) funded traineeships.

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Guidance

Actions for FE colleges and providers during the coronavirus outbreak

Guidance for further education (FE) providers on maintaining education and skills training, changes to funding arrangements, data collections and assessment.

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Guidance

Providing apprenticeships during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak

This document sets out guidance for apprentices, employers, training providers and assessment organisations in response to the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19).

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Careers

The Skills Toolkit

The Skills Toolkit is a new online platform, giving access to free, high-quality digital and numeracy courses to help people build up their skills, progress in work and boost job prospects. Check out The Skills Toolkit today.

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ESFA Update

Our weekly newsletter containing actions and information for ESFA-funded organisations.

Latest from the Education and Skills Funding Agency

  1. Independent special schools and colleges
    • Guidance
  2. Incentive payments for hiring a new apprentice
    • Detailed guide
  3. Find a learning aim and ILR sources of data
    • 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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Services

  1. Find an apprenticeship
  2. Check what help you could get with childcare costs
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Guidance and regulation

  1. Apprenticeship funding rules
    • Detailed guide
  2. How to register and use the apprenticeship service as an employer
    • Detailed guide
See all guidance and regulation

News and communications

  1. ESFA Update: 5 August 2020
    • Correspondence
  2. ESFA: Business Update
    • Correspondence
See all news and communications

Research and statistics

  1. Further education and skills data
    • Statistical data set
  2. National Careers Service satisfaction and progression surveys: 2017 to 2018
    • Research
See all research and statistics

Policy papers and consultations

  1. Apprenticeship funding
    • Policy paper
  2. Reforms to subcontracting education for learners over 16
    • Consultation outcome
See all policy papers and consultations

Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) annual report and accounts 2019 to 2020
    • Corporate report
  2. Funding allocations to training providers: 2018 to 2019
    • Transparency
See all transparency and freedom of information releases

Our management

Eileen Milner
Eileen Milner
Chief Executive, Education and Skills Funding Agency
Kirsty Evans
Director, Further Education, ESFA
Peter Mucklow
Director, Apprenticeships, ESFA
Matthew Atkinson
Director, Provider Market Oversight, ESFA
Sue Lovelock
Director, Professional and Technical Education, ESFA
John Edwards
Director, Funding Directorate, ESFA
Charlotte Briscall
Director, Customer Experience, Digital and Data, 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

Make an FOI request

  1. Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request.
  2. Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question.
  3. Make a new request by contacting us using the details below.

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

  1. Jobs