ESFA Update: further education 26 October 2022
Published 26 October 2022
Applies to England
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1. Action: final funding claim for 2021 to 2022
The final funding claim window opened at 9am on Monday 24 October 2022.
Please submit your final funding claim by 5pm on Thursday 27 October 2022. The claim form will be available on Submit Learner Data.
Your principal or delegated authority must sign your claim digitally on Manage your education and skills funding by 5pm on Tuesday 1 November 2022.
You will need to submit a claim if you receive funds through these contracts:
- grant funded - ESFA funded adult education budget (AEB) (adult skills, community learning, 19 to 24 traineeships and national skills fund Level 3 adult offer)
- grant funded - advanced learner loans bursary (ALLB)
- 16 to 19 education
Once you have submitted your claim you will also be able to view it on the Manage your education and skills funding within fifteen minutes.
If you have any queries, please use ESFA help centre to contact us.
2. Reminder: 2021 to 2022 FE workforce data collection is still open for return
The 2021 to 2022 FE workforce data collection is still open for returns. Please remember that this is mandatory for all providers in scope, and the collection closes on the 25 November.
To access the staff, vacancy and governor collections, use the Submit learner data sign in process.
If your require an account, please follow our IDAMS account this guidance.
We will be publishing outcomes in Spring 2023, for the benefit of providers and key stakeholders, such as Ofsted and sector representatives.
We have also released guidance documents for the collections to support staff who are completing the collections.
3. Information: 16 to 19 and adult revenue funding allocations for 2022 to 2023
We have published the 16 to 19 revenue funding allocations for academic year 2022 to 2023 on GOV.UK.
The publication covers schools, academies and further education institutions funded by ESFA for 16 to 19 year olds and 19 to 25 year olds with an education, health and care (EHC) plan.
We have also published the adult, apprenticeship and traineeship funding allocations for academic year 2022 to 2023 for training providers.
The publication covers the funding values for colleges, training organisations and employers with an adult education budget, apprenticeship, advanced learner loan or traineeship contract for 2022 to 2023.
We publish both sets of allocations data annually in the interests of transparency.
4. Information: provider data self-assessment toolkit (PDSAT)
For the 2022 to 2023 funding year, we expect to release the online version of PDSAT next month.
We have published a PDSAT online update with more information on GOV.UK. This contains information on the opportunity for providers to pre-register in advance of release, enabling them to access PDSAT online as soon as it is available.
The pre-registration period for providers is now open and will be available for two weeks. Providers will be able to pre-register by completing our online this form.
We will be releasing a similar pre-registration phase for non-providers (auditors, consultants, MCA’s etc) next week.
5. Information: local authority apprenticeship and traineeship weekly vacancy reports
Each week we produce a set of reports showing all live apprenticeship and traineeship vacancies in each local authority area. The reports are an excel version of the Find an apprenticeship website.
These reports are used by career advisers, teachers, and stakeholders such as DWP work coaches and school advisers to promote the opportunities available.
If you would like to sign up to receive the reports then please contact Communications.ESFA@education.gov.uk.
Please state which regional report you would like to receive:
- North
- Midlands
- South
- London and Southeast
- or you can opt to receive reports for all regions