Education and Skills Funding Agency

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

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News story

Availability of ESFA services: 20 October to 22 October 2018

We are carrying out essential maintenance this weekend on ESFA services.

National Apprenticeship Awards

News story

Who will be the rising star of 2018?

Voting has now opened to crown the first National Apprenticeship Awards ‘rising star’ of the year at the national ceremony being held later this year in London.

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.

Academies Accounts Direction

Detailed guide

Academies Accounts Direction

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

Latest from the Education and Skills Funding Agency

  1. High needs funding arrangements: 2019 to 2020
    • Guidance
  2. Individualised learner record (ILR): check that data is accurate
    • Guidance
  3. LRS: batch load documents for schools and providers
    • 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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Our announcements

  1. Availability of ESFA services: 20 October to 22 October 2018
    • News story
  2. Aspire Achieve Advance 3aaa apprenticeship training provider termination of contracts
    • News story
  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. High needs funding arrangements: 2019 to 2020
    • Guidance
  2. Individualised learner record (ILR): check that data is accurate
    • Guidance
  3. See all publications

Our statistics

  1. FE Choices learner satisfaction survey 2016 to 2017
    • Official statistics
  2. Further education and skills: March 2018
    • National statistics
  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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Ministerial and Public Communications Division
Department for Education
Piccadilly Gate
Store Street
Manchester
M1 2WD
United Kingdom

FOI contact form

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