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Colleges and designated institutions notices to improve

Letters issued to general further education colleges, sixth-form colleges and designated institutions with a notice to improve.

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From:
Department for Education
Published:
15 November 2017
Last updated:
4 September 2026
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  1. Added 'Notice to Improve: TEC Partnership' and updated 'Revised financial health notice to improve: Havant and South Downs College'.

  2. Added 'Financial notice to improve: Tyne Coast College' and 'Financial notice to improve: Boston College' to 'Open notices'. Furness College has a new revised notice.

  3. Added a new section, 'Transition to post-intervention monitoring and support (PIMS)'. Added transition from intervention to PIMS letters for Brooklands Technical College and Warwickshire College Group. Added financial notice to improve for Richmond and Hillcroft Adult and Community College. Moved closed financial notices to improve for Northern College, Warwickshire College Group and Brooklands Technical College to the closed section.

  4. Added revised financial health notices to improve to Newbury College and Havant and South Downs College under ‘Open notices’.

  5. Moved 'Closed financial health notice to improve: Strode College' to the 'Closed notices' section.

  6. Closed the notice to improve for Weston College of Further and Higher Education.

  7. Closed the financial health notice to improve for The SMB Group.

  8. Added 2 financial notices to improve, to Newbury College and South Devon College. These are in the 'open notices' section.

  9. Closed the financial notice to improve for Lakes College West Cumbria.

  10. Added 'Notice to improve: Havant and South Downs College' and 'Financial health notice to improve: Mary Ward Settlement' to 'Open notices'.

  11. Closed the notice to improve for The City Literary Institute. Updated 'Financial health notice to improve: Warwickshire College Group'.

  12. Added 'Notice to improve: Furness College' to 'Open notices'.

  13. Moved 'Notice to improve: Newham Sixth Form College' to 'Closed notices'.

  14. Added 'Financial health notice to improve: Warwickshire College Group'.

  15. Added 'Financial health notice to improve: Lakes College' to ‘Open notices’.

  16. Added 'Notice to improve: Weston College of Further and Higher Education' to ‘Open notices’. Moved a financial health notice to The Cornwall College Group to ‘Closed notices’.

  17. Added 'Notice to improve: Newham Sixth Form College' to Open section. Removed 'Revised financial health notice to improve: City of Wolverhampton College' from 'Open' section. Added 'Closed revised financial health notice to improve: City of Wolverhampton College' to 'Closed' section.

  18. Moved the financial health notice for Hull College to 'Closed notices'.

  19. Moved the revised financial health notice for Southampton City College to 'Closed notices'.

  20. Moved 'Financial health notice to improve: Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College' to 'Closed notices'. Added 'Financial notice to improve: Strode College' to 'Open notices'.

  21. Added 'Financial health notice to improve: The SMB Group' to 'Open notices'.

  22. Moved the financial health notice for Ruskin College to 'Closed notices'.

  23. Added the 'Revised financial notice to improve: Brooklands College' to 'Open notices'.

  24. 'Notice to improve: Richmond upon Thames College' and 'Financial health notice to improve: Nottingham College' moved to 'Closed notices'.

  25. The financial notice to improve for Bradford College has been moved to 'Closed notices'.

  26. Moved the financial health notices for St Mary's College, Greater Brighton Metropolitan College and Weymouth College to 'Closed notices'.

  27. Moved the financial health notices for St Helen's College and Gateshead College to 'Closed notices'.

  28. 'Financial health notice to improve: East Sussex College Group' moved to 'Closed notices'.

  29. Collection page updated to reflect current and closed notices.

  30. Collection page updated to reflect current and closed notices.

  31. Collection page updated to reflect current and closed notices.

  32. Collection page updated to reflect current and closed notices.

  33. Collection page updated to reflect current and closed notices.

  34. Collection page updated to reflect current and closed notices.

  35. Updated open and closed notices.

  36. Updated open and closed notices.

  37. Updated closed section of list.

  38. Updated for March 2020 to show revised NTIs, newly issued NTIs and closed NTIs.

  39. Notices for Southampton City College and RNN Group added.

  40. Financial health notices to improve for Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College and Warrington & Vale Royal College have been added.

  41. Updated for May 2019

  42. Collection page updated to reflect current and closed notices.

  43. We have updated the list of closed notices to improve.

  44. List updated, 15 June 2018.

  45. Page updated to reflect open and closed notices.

  46. Financial control notice to improve for Bradford College has been added to the collection.

  47. Updated for December 2017.

  48. First published.

Letters issued by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) and Department for Education (DfE). They serve as a written notice to improve for financial intervention.

Notices to improve will be reviewed and updated at least annually.

ESFA closed on 31 March 2025. All activity has moved to DfE.

Open notices

Transition to post-intervention monitoring and support (PIMS)

Closed notices

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