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ESFA Update: 28 April 2021

Latest information and actions from the Education and Skills Funding Agency for academies, schools, colleges, local authorities and further education providers.

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Items for further education

Article Title
Reminder a new Document exchange service is now live
Reminder the coronavirus (COVID-19) free school meals additional costs online form for schools and colleges is live
Reminder catch-up on the Skills Accelerator bidders’ event
Information extension to the time permitted for Universal Credit claimants to attend training
Information monitoring post-16 funding
Information Apprenticeship Service account access levels for training providers
Information publication of a new manual to support flexible apprenticeships in construction  
Information clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) staff returning to the workplace
Information updated contact details for regional further education (FE) and higher education (HE) Prevent coordinators
Information useful blog for applicants to the College Collaboration Fund

Items for academies

Article Title
Action coronavirus (COVID-19) summer schools programme funding
Information academies budget forecast return
Reminder a new Document exchange service is now live
Reminder the coronavirus (COVID-19) free school meals additional costs online form for schools and colleges is live
Information publication of the teachers’ pay grant (TPG) and teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) allocations and conditions of grant
Information clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) staff returning to the workplace

Items for local authorities

Article Title
Action coronavirus (COVID-19) summer schools programme funding
Reminder a new Document exchange service is now live
Reminder the coronavirus (COVID-19) free school meals additional costs online form for schools and colleges is live
Information the view my financial insights (VMFI) tool is now live for local authorities and maintained schools
Information publication of the teachers’ pay grant (TPG) and teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) allocations and conditions of grant
Information school improvement monitoring and brokering grant for April to August 2021
Information clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) staff returning to the workplace
Published 28 April 2021