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Check how accurate your ILR data is with FIS

The Funding Information Service (FIS) is an offline tool for checking your individualised learner record (ILR) data.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Education
Published:
22 August 2019
Last updated:
25 August 2026
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  1. Added 'FIS known issues 2026 to 2027'.

  2. Added 'FIS user guide 2026 to 2027'.

  3. Updated with latest version of 'FIS release guide 2025 to 2026'.

  4. Updated the version history of 'FIS release guide: 2025 to 2026'.

  5. Updated with latest version of 'FIS known issues 2025 to 2026'.

  6. Added the user guide, known issues document and release guide for 2025 to 2026. Added a line to the version history chart in the release guide for 2024 to 2025.

  7. Updated with latest version of 'FIS known issues 2024 to 2025'.

  8. Updated 'FIS release guide 2024 to 2025'.

  9. Updated 'FIS known issues 2024 to 2025'.

  10. Updated 'FIS release guide 2024 to 2025' and 'FIS known issues 2024 to 2025'.

  11. Updated 'FIS known issues 2024 to 2025'.

  12. Updated 'FIS release guide 2024 to 2025' and 'FIS known issues 2024 to 2025'.

  13. Added 'FIS User Guide 2024 to 2025' and 'FIS known issues 2024 to 2025'.

  14. Updated 'FIS known issues 2024 to 2025'.

  15. Added 'FIS User Guide 2024 to 2025' and 'FIS Release Guide 2024 to 2025'.

  16. Updated 'FIS known issues 2024 to 2025'.

  17. Added: FIS known issues 2024 to 2025

  18. Updated 'FIS known issues 2023 to 2024'.

  19. Added version 2324.8 to 'FIS release guide 2023 to 2024'. Removed 'FIS known issues 2021 to 2022', 'FIS release guide 2021 to 2022' and 'FIS user guide for 2021 to 2022'.

  20. Updates to: FIS known issues 2023 to 2024 and FIS release guide 2023 to 2024

  21. We've updated the FIS known issues 2023 to 2024 document. We've also updated both the FIS release guides for 2023 to 2024 and 2022 to 2023.

  22. We have published the FIS user guide for 2023 to 2024.

  23. We have published the FIS known issues document and FIS release guide for 2023 to 2024. We have also updated the FIS release guide for 2022 to 2023.

  24. We have updated the FIS release guide 2022 to 2023.

  25. We have updated the FIS release guide for 2022 to 2023.

  26. We have updated the FIS release guide 2022 to 2023.

  27. We have published version 7 of the FIS release guide 2022 to 2023.

  28. We have updated the FIS release guide 2022 to 2023.

  29. We have updated the FIS release guide for 2022 to 2023.

  30. We have updated the FIS release guide 2022 to 2023.

  31. We have updated the FIS known issues 2022 to 2023 document, and have updated the FIS release guides for both 2021 to 2022 and 2022 to 2023.

  32. We have published the FIS user guide for 2022 to 2023, FIS release guide for 2022 to 2023 and the FIS known issues 2022 to 2023.

  33. We have published version 9.1 of the FIS release guide for 2021 to 2022.

  34. We have published version 8 of the FIS release guide 2021 to 2022 and updated the FIS known issues 2021 to 2022.

  35. We have updated the FIS known issues 2021 to 2022.

  36. We have published version 7.0 of the FIS release guide 2021 to 2022.

  37. We have updated the FIS known issues 2021 to 2022 and the FIS release guide 2021 to 2022.

  38. We have updated the FIS known issues 2021 to 2022 document and the FIS release guide 2021 to 2022.

  39. We have updated the FIS known issues 2021 to 2022 and have published version 4.0 of the FIS release guide.

  40. We have updated the FIS known issues 2021 to 2022 document.

  41. We have updated the FIS release guide 2021 to 2022.

  42. We have updated the FIS user guide for 2021 to 2022.

  43. We have updated the FIS release guide for 2021 to 2022.

  44. We have published the FIS user guide for 2021 to 2022 and updated the FIS known issues 2021 to 2022.

  45. We have updated the FIS known issues 2020 to 2021, and published the FIS release guide 2021 to 2022 and FIS known issues 2021 to 2022.

  46. We have published version 1.15 of the FIS release guide 2020 to 2021.

  47. We have published version 1.14 of the FIS release guide.

  48. We have published version 1.13 of the FIS release guide.

  49. We have published version 1.12 of the FIS release guide 2020 to 2021.

  50. We've published version 1.11 of the FIS release guide 2020 to 2021.

  51. We have published version 1.10 of the FIS release guide 2020 to 2021.

  52. We have updated the FIS known issues log and the FIS release guide (version 1.9).

  53. We have published version 1.8 of the FIS release guide for 2020 to 2021.

  54. We have published version 1.7 of the FIS release guide 2020 to 2021.

  55. We have published version 1.6 of the FIS release guide 2020 to 2021.

  56. We have published FIS release guide 2020 to 2021, version 1.5.

  57. We have updated the FIS known issues 2020 to 2021 document.

  58. We have updated the FIS release guide 2019 to 2020.

  59. We have updated the FIS release guide 2020 to 2021 and the FIS known issues 2020 to 2021 document.

  60. We have updated the FIS release guides for 2020 to 2021 and 2019 and 2020, and updated the FIS known issues logs for 2020 to 2021 and 2019 and 2020.

  61. We have updated the FIS known issues and FIS release guides for 2020 to 2021 and 2019 to 2020.

  62. We have updated the FIS known issues 2019 to 2020 and 2020 to 2021 log, and the FIS release guide 2019 to 2020.

  63. We have updated the FIS known issues logs for 2020 to 2021 and 2019 to 2020. We have also updated the FIS release guides for 2020 to 2021 and 2019 to 2020.

  64. We have updated the FIS known issues 2019 to 2020 log.

  65. We have published the FIS known issues log, release guide and user guide for 2020 to 2021.

  66. We have published version 1.8 of the FIS release guide: 2019 to 2020.

  67. We have published version 1.7 of the FIS release guide: 2019 to 2020.

  68. We have published version 1.6 of the FIS Release Guide for 2019 to 2020.

  69. We have published version 1.5 of the FIS release guide for 2019 to 2020.

  70. We have updated the FIS Release Guide for version 1.0.19 and 1.0.20.

  71. We have updated the FIS Release Guide for version 1.0.18.

  72. We have published version 1.2 of the FIS release guide: 2019 to 2020.

  73. We have published version 1.1 of the FIS release guide for 2019 to 2020.

  74. We have updated the FIS known issues 2019 to 2020 document.

  75. We have updated the FIS known issues 2019 to 2020 and published the FIS release guide for 2019 to 2020.

  76. We have updated the FIS known issues 2019 to 2020.

  77. We have updated the FIS known issues 2019 to 2020 log.

  78. We have updated the FIS known issues 2019 to 2020 log.

  79. We have updated the FIS known issues 2019 to 2020 log.

  80. We have published the latest version of the FIS known issues 2019 to 2020 document.

  81. We have updated the FIS known issues 2019 to 2020 log.

  82. We have updated the FIS known issues 2019 to 2020 document.

  83. We have updated the FIS known issues 2019 to 2020 document.

  84. We have updated the FIS and data returns known issues 2018 to 2019 document.

  85. First published.

Applies to England

Documents

FIS user guide 2026 to 2027

PDF, 2.91 MB, 25 pages

FIS known issues 2026 to 2027

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 49.4 KB

FIS user guide 2025 to 2026

PDF, 1.37 MB, 25 pages

FIS known issues 2025 to 2026

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 52.7 KB

FIS release guide 2025 to 2026

HTML

Details

FIS helps schools and other education providers to get ILR data right.

You must use the right version of FIS for the academic year you’re submitting data for.

You can download FIS for free and it works offline.

The user guides explain how to use FIS and what it is for.

The known issues documents show if we are experiencing problems with the software.

The release guides have technical information about the service’s functionality.

Previous documents for FIS are available in the National Archives.

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