ESFA Update further education: 7 December 2022
Published 7 December 2022
Applies to England
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1. Reminder: mandatory FE workforce data collection approaching
Minister Halfon has written to the sector about the importance of the FE workforce data collection.
The collection for the 2021 to 2022 academic year opened on 12 September 2022 and will close on 14 December 2022.
The collection can be found on Submit learner data. Until 14 December, when the FE workforce staff, vacancy and governor data collections close, providers can join a daily call to raise queries and get questions answered to help with completion of their 2021 to 2022 data returns.
The call will open at 10:30am daily for 30 minutes. Note that providers may need to wait in the lobby to be admitted to the call to enable the calls to be conducted one on one, we will be using breakout rooms to do this.
As well as publishing data and conclusions, we have a number of interested parties, including Ofsted, who want to see compliance status of the providers serving the sector.
2. Information: additional FE capital funding for the 2022 to 2023 financial year
On 6 December we announced that eligible FE colleges and designated institutions would receive an additional £53 million capital funding allocation to improve energy efficiency in 2022 to 2023.
Grant agreements will be issued shortly and to receive payment in January 2023, participating colleges and institutions must make sure their agreements are signed by 3 January 2023.
3. Information: coronavirus (COVID-19) 16 to 19 tuition fund in-year spend reporting guidance (formerly referred to as mid-year report) 2022 to 2023
How to complete the coronavirus (COVID-19) 16 to 19 tuition fund 2022 to 2023: In-year spend report guidance has been published. Institutions in receipt of 16 to 19 tuition funding in 2022 to 2023 will be required to complete this return.
The in-year spend digital form will be live from 4 January 2023. The submission deadline is 11:59pm on 23 January 2023. We will write to you again as a reminder.
You can read more information regarding the tuition fund and conditions of funding.
If you have any questions about the contents of this article, please contact us via the
4. Information: Education & Training Foundation (ETF) webinar on college reclassification
The ETF are hosting a webinar on 13 December where they will be joined by Julian Gravatt, Deputy CEO of the Association of Colleges and Tom Morrison, Partner and Head of FE at Stone King, to discuss the recent ONS decision to reclassify colleges into the public sector.
This event is aimed at chairs and governors and is also open to governance professionals and principals/CEOs.
5. Your feedback: 16 to 19 Bursary Fund survey
We are asking all 16 to 19 providers that have a Bursary Fund allocation from DfE to complete our first survey for 5 years, so that we can see how the Fund (£144million allocated in academic year 2022 to -2023) is being used.
You can access the survey online.
The information you provide will be used for research purposes only. All your responses will be treated confidentially, and we are not collecting any personal details.
We would be very grateful if you could complete the survey by 10am on Friday 16 December 2022.
Thank you for taking the time to help us with this.