Guidance

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.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Published: 22 August 2019
• Last updated: 22 February 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

FIS known issues 2023 to 2024

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 31.5 KB

FIS release guide 2023 to 2024

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FIS user guide for 2023 to 2024

PDF, 1.39 MB, 26 pages

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FIS known issues 2022 to 2023

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 30.7 KB

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FIS release guide 2022 to 2023

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FIS user guide for 2022 to 2023

PDF, 1.18 MB, 26 pages

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FIS known issues 2021 to 2022

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 31.1 KB

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FIS release guide 2021 to 2022

Ref: Version 10.0

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FIS user guide for 2021 to 2022

PDF, 1.08 MB, 27 pages

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Details

FIS helps you get your 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. It does two things:

• checks data against the validation rules and produces a validation report so you can see where data needs refining
• calculates provisional reports – only provisional as FIS doesn’t have access to up-to-date reference data

The known issues document will tell you if ESFA is experiencing any problems with the software.

You can view all previous documents for FIS on the National Archives website.

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Published 22 August 2019
Last updated 22 February 2024 + show all updates

1. 22 February 2024

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

2. 12 October 2023

   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.

3. 24 August 2023

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

4. 22 August 2023

   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.

5. 30 May 2023

   We have updated the FIS release guide 2022 to 2023.

6. 11 May 2023

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

7. 23 February 2023

   We have updated the FIS release guide 2022 to 2023.

8. 6 February 2023

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

9. 19 December 2022

   We have updated the FIS release guide 2022 to 2023.

10. 2 December 2022

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

11. 27 September 2022

    We have updated the FIS release guide 2022 to 2023.

12. 1 September 2022

    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.

13. 2 August 2022

    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.

14. 29 April 2022

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

15. 16 February 2022

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

16. 31 January 2022

    We have updated the FIS known issues 2021 to 2022.

17. 21 January 2022

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

18. 15 December 2021

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

19. 18 November 2021

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

20. 25 October 2021

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

21. 1 October 2021

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

22. 28 September 2021

    We have updated the FIS release guide 2021 to 2022.

23. 9 September 2021

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

24. 24 August 2021

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

25. 19 August 2021

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

26. 6 August 2021

    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.

27. 4 August 2021

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

28. 29 June 2021

    We have published version 1.14 of the FIS release guide.

29. 17 May 2021

    We have published version 1.13 of the FIS release guide.

30. 8 April 2021

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

31. 29 March 2021

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

32. 8 March 2021

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

33. 1 February 2021

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

34. 19 January 2021

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

35. 17 December 2020

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

36. 30 November 2020

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

37. 18 November 2020

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

38. 17 November 2020

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

39. 29 October 2020

    We have updated the FIS release guide 2019 to 2020.

40. 23 October 2020

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

41. 5 October 2020

    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.

42. 28 September 2020

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

43. 11 September 2020

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

44. 4 September 2020

    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.

45. 20 August 2020

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

46. 19 August 2020

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

47. 19 August 2020

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

48. 3 August 2020

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

49. 20 July 2020

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

50. 7 July 2020

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

51. 25 June 2020

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

52. 26 May 2020

    We have updated the FIS Release Guide for version 1.0.18.

53. 22 April 2020

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

54. 6 March 2020

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

55. 21 February 2020

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

56. 21 February 2020

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

57. 23 January 2020

    We have updated the FIS known issues 2019 to 2020.

58. 20 January 2020

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

59. 18 December 2019

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

60. 17 December 2019

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

61. 5 December 2019

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

62. 18 November 2019

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

63. 24 October 2019

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

64. 18 September 2019

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

65. 29 August 2019

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

66. 22 August 2019

    First published.