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
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News story

Post 16 funding arrangements published for 2019 to 2020

Post-16 funding letter for the 2019 to 2020 academic year published

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Detailed guide

Register of apprenticeship training providers

Organisations that are eligible to receive government funding to train apprentices.

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News story

ESFA extends Schools Resource Management Adviser pilot

ESFA is extending its School Resource Management Advisers pilot, which found £35 million of savings and revenue generation opportunities, to August 2020.

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News story

'Opportunities Through Apprenticeships' project is launched

New scheme to boost access to apprenticeships in disadvantaged areas is launched

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Have your say in our customer communications survey

Your opportunity to tell us your views on our communications

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Apprenticeship stars take centre stage at National Apprenticeship Awards 2018 ceremony

The National Apprenticeship Awards 2018 included hundreds of apprentices, employers and individuals from across England.

Latest from the Education and Skills Funding Agency

  1. Register of apprenticeship training providers
    • Detailed guide
  2. ESFA Update: 12 December 2018
    • Correspondence
  3. Post 16 funding arrangements published for 2019 to 2020
    • News story

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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. ESFA Update: 12 December 2018
    • Correspondence
  2. Post 16 funding arrangements published for 2019 to 2020
    • 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. Register of apprenticeship training providers
    • Detailed guide
  2. 16 to 19 education: funding allocations
    • Detailed guide
  3. See all publications

Our statistics

  1. Further education and skills data
    • Statistical data set
  2. FE Choices employer satisfaction survey: 2017 to 2018
    • Official 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
Jennifer Coupland
Director, Professional and Technical Education, ESFA

Contact ESFA

General enquiries

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

United Kingdom

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

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