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Find out what’s new about the National Apprenticeship Awards 2018 – now open for entries
The 15th National Apprenticeship Awards is now open for entries - with new categories opening up for 2018.
Education & Skills
Funding Agency
It’s a wrap for National Apprenticeship Week 2018
NAW 2018 wraps up after 5 days of celebratory events that demonstrated how apprenticeships work for individuals, employers, local communities and the wider...
Apprenticeships work for women
An ‘apprenticeships work for women’ event highlighted and celebrated the positive impact of female apprentices in workplaces across the country.
A new apprenticeship programme kicks off National Apprenticeship Week 2018
National Apprenticeship Week 2018 was officially launched at the BBC today – with the announcement of a new ground-breaking apprenticeship programme.
Apprenticeship diversity is going from strength to strength
The Apprenticeship Diversity Champions Network has increased its membership – taking the number of employers committed to apprenticeship diversity to over 40.
Latest
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Apprenticeship funding bands
- updated
- Guidance
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Individualised Learner Record (ILR): check that data is accurate
- updated
- Guidance
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ESFA e-bulletin
- updated
- Collection
What we do
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.
Documents
Our announcements
Our publications
Our statistics
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Further education and skills: March 2018
- National Statistics
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National achievement rates tables: transparency data
- Official Statistics
Our management
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Eileen Milner
Chief Executive, Education and Skills Funding Agency
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Julian Wood
Director, Capital, ESFA
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Mike Pettifer
Director, Academies and Maintained Schools, ESFA
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Sue Husband
Director, Employer and Employee Engagement, ESFA
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Peter Mucklow
Director, Further Education, ESFA
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Keith Smith
Director, Apprenticeships, ESFA
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Matthew Atkinson
Director, Provider Market Oversight, ESFA
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Kirsty Evans
Associate Director, Adult Funding Operations, ESFA
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Béatrice Lightfoot
Director, Central Services, ESFA
Contact ESFA
For enquiries relating to functions of the former Education Funding Agency contact:
Ministerial and Public Communications Division
Department for Education
Piccadilly Gate
Store Street
Manchester
M1 2WD
Contact form https://form.education...
This includes academy or pre-16 provision, school building/capital provision or 16 to 19 provision (incl. 19+ continuing learners).
For enquiries relating to functions of the former Skills Funding Agency contact:
Ministerial and Public Communications Division
Department for Education
Piccadilly Gate
Store Street
Manchester
M1 2WD
This includes apprenticeships, 19+ adult education and ESF.
Make an FOI request
- Read about the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and how to make a request
- Check our previous releases to see if we’ve already answered your question
- Make a new request by contacting us at:
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