Guidance

Mainstream funding calculations rule-base for adult skills

Guidance for software suppliers and people developing internal software

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
• Published: 27 October 2021
• Last updated: 13 July 2026 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

The adult skills fund funding calculation rule-base for 2025 to 2026

PDF, 860 KB, 120 pages

Mainstream funding calculation rule-base for adult skills 2019 to 2020

PDF, 1.39 MB, 116 pages

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Details

The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025. All activity has moved to the Department for Education (DfE). You should continue to follow these rules.

The mainstream funding calculations rule-base for adult skills guides on this page are for years 2019 to 2020 and 2025 to 2026.

This guidance is aimed at software suppliers and people developing internal software.

The funding calculations have been created using Oracle  Policy Modelling (OPM) technology. OPM builds business rules in the form of a rule base which is then deployed using the Oracle Policy Automation (OPA) engine.

This guidance contains the OPA rule base source documents for the mainstream adult skills calculation used by the Funding Information Service (FIS) and Submit Learner Data (SLD).

Published 27 October 2021

Last updated 13 July 2026 — Show all updates

1. 13 July 2026

   Added 'The adult skills fund funding calculation rule-base for 2025 to 2026'.

2. 10 November 2021

   We have created a new page for the mainstream funding calculation guides previously published for academic years 2018 to 2019 and 2019 to 2020.

3. 27 October 2021

   First published.