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
  7. School and college funding and finance

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ESFA to simplify the way colleges submit their data

New financial model for colleges to signal when financial health in decline

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National Apprenticeship Awards 2019 regional winners announced

The National Apprenticeship Awards 2019 regional winners have been announced, with winners from a wide range of industries and occupations now progressing to the national stage of the National Apprenticeship Awards 2019.

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September apprenticeship payment

Changes to apprenticeship payments for September which do not affect providers getting payment and on the date expected

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The National Careers Service course directory is changing

The course directory is changing to make it easier for providers to add their course information.

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Opportunity for education and skills training providers to bid for European Social Funding in four Local Enterprise Partnership areas

Bidding process for £4.2m of funding opens on Monday 2 September 2019

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ESFA: Update

Weekly round-up of information and actions for Education and Skills Funding Agency funded organisations.

Latest from the Education and Skills Funding Agency

  1. How to fix apprenticeship service data mismatches
    • Guidance
  2. Academies land and buildings collection tool
    • Guidance
  3. Pre-16 schools funding: local authority guidance for 2020 to 2021
    • 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. Pupil premium: funding and accountability for schools
    • Detailed guide
  2. Higher and degree apprenticeships
    • Guidance
See all guidance and regulation

News and communications

  1. National Apprenticeship Awards 2019 regional winners announced
    • News story
  2. ESFA to simplify the way colleges submit their data
    • News story
See all news and communications

Research and statistics

  1. National Careers Service satisfaction and progression surveys: 2017 to 2018
    • Research
  2. National Careers Service satisfaction and progression surveys: 2016 to 2017
    • Research
See all research and statistics

Policy papers and consultations

  1. 16 to 19 discretionary bursary fund: allocation methodology
    • Consultation outcome
  2. Apprenticeship funding
    • Policy paper
See all policy papers and consultations

Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. Financial management and governance review: Shrewsbury Academies Trust
    • Transparency
  2. Uplift factors and postcode files
    • Transparency
See all transparency and freedom of information releases

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
Jennifer Coupland
Director, Professional and Technical Education, ESFA
Kate Josephs
Director, Funding Directorate, ESFA
Charlotte Briscall
Director, Customer Experience, Digital and Data, ESFA
Kirsty Evans
Associate Director, Adult Funding Operations, 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

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