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Check ILR reports for possible data errors in your return

Guidance on how to spot errors in your individualised learner record (ILR) data and how to resolve them.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Education
Published:
22 August 2019
Last updated:
14 September 2026
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  1. Added 2026 to 2027 ILR funding reports guidance.

  2. Updated 'Understand your funding: using the dashboard' to reflect changes to the dashboard for the 2026 to 2027 academic year.

  3. Updated '2025 to 2026 ILR funding reports' following the launch of apprenticeship units.

  4. We have added the 2025 to 2026 funding reports guidance.

  5. We have added information regarding funding models in the 'Understand your funding' guidance.

  6. We have added information on the learners section of the dashboard.

  7. We have updated the Understand your funding: using the dashboard guidance. We have added sections 'skills bootcamps overview' and 'skills bootcamps graph and table'

  8. We have updated the understand your funding: using the dashboard guidance.

  9. We have updated the 2024 to 2025 ILR funding reports guidance.

  10. We have updated the 'Understand your funding: using the dashboard' guidance to clarify how to gain access to the dashboard and that the earliest data on the dashboard is for academic year 2023 to 2024.

  11. We have updated the 'Understand your funding: using the dashboard' guidance for clarity around devolved funding and what the total allocation value includes for 16 to 19 contracts. We've added a new 'What’s not included in the contract values data' section (5.1) and have added more definitions to the terminology section (6).

  12. We have updated 'Understand your funding: using the dashboard' guidance to include two new sections: section 4 'Year on year data' and section 5 'Contract values'.

  13. We have added new guidance on using the 'understand your funding' dashboard.

  14. We have added the 2023 to 20234 ILR funding reports guidance document.

  15. We have added the 2022 to 2023 ILR guidance document.

  16. We have added the 2021 to 2022 ILR funding report guidance.

  17. We have updated the 2020 to 2021 ILR funding reports guidance

  18. The 2020 to 2021 ILR funding reports guidance has been added.

  19. We have updated the 2019 to 2020 ILR report guidance to include a section on the new non-contracted devolved adult education activity report. We've also updated the ALLB occupancy report section to update the criteria for appearing in the report.

  20. We have published the mainstream funding calculation rule-base for adult skills for 2019 to 2020.

  21. We have added the 2019 to 2020 ILR funding report guidance

  22. First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Understand your funding: using the dashboard

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2026 to 2027 ILR funding reports

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2025 to 2026 ILR funding reports

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2024 to 2025 ILR funding reports

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2023 to 2024 ILR funding reports

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Details

If your payments are not what you expected, it may mean there’s a problem with your data. These guides will help you understand your ILR reports and how the Department for Education (DfE) makes some of its payment calculations.

Previous versions of the funding reports guidance can be accessed in the National Archives.

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