DfE Update further education: 3 December 2025
Published 3 December 2025
Applies to England
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1. Action: Post-16 monitoring dashboard now live
Use the post-16 monitoring reports dashboard for academic year 2025 to 2026 to check your data.
The dashboard supports financial assurance: monitoring post-16 funding for 2025 to 2026 and identifies potential data quality and funding errors. Review these throughout the year to ensure your data and funding is accurate.
This first release includes R03 data to help you review your R04 data submission on or before Thursday 4 December 2025.
Make sure the data driving 16 to 19 in-year processes such as exceptional in-year growth and T level reconciliation is complete and accurate.
We will use this data, and any funding claims you submit, to assure ourselves that your delivery meets our funding rules and key policy objectives.
Some errors may result in a funding recovery if they are not corrected by the close of the R14 individualised learner record data return for 2025 to 2026 which is Thursday 22 October 2026.
2. Information: 2024 to 2025 final reconciliation statements
We would like to thank providers for submitting your 2024 to 2025 adult education and skills final funding claim.
Reconciliation statements are now available on manage your education skills and funding for you to view.
This will set out the final position for the 2024 to 2025 funding year and inform the funding that is required to repay (if applicable) or over delivery funding that we will pay.
Final reconciliation statements are available following submission of a final funding claim for the following funding streams:
- adult skills fund (adult skills and tailored learning)
- level 3 free courses for jobs
- advanced learner loans bursary
If you are required to repay funds back to us, we will schedule those repayments from December 2025.
If you have any queries, contact us through the Customer Help Portal.
3. Your feedback: FE workforce survey to share with your teachers
We are administering a new survey of teachers, leaders and managers in further education (FE).
We are interested in hearing from staff in general FE colleges (GFEC), sixth form colleges (SFC) (including 16 to 19 academies and free schools) and independent training providers (ITP).
The survey will capture vital evidence on topics such as workload, recruitment and retention, pay and professional development.
Our contracted researcher, the National Foundation for Educational Research, emailed all GFECs, SFCs and ITPs a unique link to the survey on Thursday 6 November. Please share the survey link with your staff, especially teachers, and encourage them to complete it by Friday 5 December.
The survey will ensure the voices of the FE workforce are heard, directly informing DfE’s future policy and funding decisions for the sector.
Colleges/providers with 10 or more survey respondents will receive a tailored feedback report.
If you need further information or didn’t receive a survey link, contact m.walker@nfer.ac.uk.