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EFA e-bulletin for schools, colleges, local authorities and other 16 to 19 providers: 18 June 2015

Published 18 June 2015

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1. Action: traineeships - new validation rules introduced in 2014 to 2015 ILR

New validation rules are being added to the R11 Individualised Learner Record (ILR) return to ensure the completion of destination and progression data for learners who have completed a traineeship programme.

You must report this information for all traineeship learners, even if the learner has not achieved or you have been unable to obtain information about their destination. You should add this information into your ILR returns before your R11 submission to avoid receiving a validation error and loss of funding

A technical guidance note has been published with more information about how to record traineeship destination and progressions.

For further information, please contact dataqueries@sfa.bis.gov.uk.

2. Information: providing information about planned 2016 to 2017 study programmes to the national post-16 courses database

The Department for Education (DfE) expects all post-16 education and training providers funded by Education Funding Agency (EFA) to supply information by the end of September 2015, about the courses they plan to offer to 16- to 19-year-olds in 2016 to 2017.

Post-16 providers can now submit course information in one of 3 ways:

  1. EFA-funded providers who have DfE Secure Access accounts can access the database by selecting the ‘post-16 portal’ option.
  2. Skills Funding Agency (SFA) or EFA-funded providers who don’t have a Secure Access account can submit course information direct to the National Careers Service Course Directory provider portal.
  3. Providers can nominate a third party organisation to input course data on their behalf. More information can be found in the help guide.

Please note that if you already have a provider portal account to upload post-19 course information (for example, if you offer both EFA and SFA-funded programmes), you should continue to access and upload post-16 data using the same account.

Further details can be found on the provider portal.

3. Contacts

All 16 to 19 providers can get in touch with the EFA through the relevant territorial inbox, unless a different email address is specified in an article:

16 to 19 providers - northern territory

For local authorities, schools, colleges and other (non-academy) providers in north west, north east and Yorkshire and the Humber with queries for the Education Funding Agency

16 to 19 providers - central and south west territory

For local authorities, schools, colleges and other (non-academy) providers in south west, west midlands and east midlands with queries for the Education Funding Agency

16 to 19 providers - southern territory

For local authorities, schools, colleges and other (non-academy) providers in south east, east of England and London with queries for the Education Funding Agency

Academies should contact the Academy Enquiries Service:

EFA questions

For schools, local authorities, other education institutions and providers, accountants, auditors and other professional advisers with queries for the Education Funding Agency

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