Correspondence
Adult skills fund: devolved grant determination letters 2025
Letters to devolved areas outlining adult skills fund (ASF) and free courses for jobs funding for the 2025 to 2026 financial year.
Applies to England
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These grant determination letters confirm the amount of funding for 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026. They cover the adult skills fund (ASF) grant payments (non-ring fenced) and free courses for jobs (ring-fenced) funding.
The funding is transferred from the department to local authorities under section 31 of the Local Government Act 2003 and section 39a of the Great London Authority Act 1999.
The following specified Strategic Authorities are responsible for administrating the ASF in their devolved area:
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
- Cornwall
- East Midlands
- Greater Manchester
- Greater London
- Liverpool City Region
- North of Tyne
- South Yorkshire
- Tees Valley
- West of England
- West Midlands
- West Yorkshire
- York and North Yorkshire
The following information is also available:
- exercise of delegated adult education functions: guidance for the Mayor of London
- devolved adult education functions statutory guidance for combined authorities
- adult skills fund devolution
Updates to this page
Published 25 September 2025