Guidance

Residential Support Scheme guide: 2024 to 2025

Guidance for all institutions with a 16 to 18 Residential Support Scheme (RSS) allocation for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.

Applies to England

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Students, parents and carers should read our get funding for college accommodation guide for information about eligibility and claiming funding.

This guide is for all institutions with a 16 to 18 Residential Support Scheme (RSS) allocation for the 2024 to 2025 academic year .

The guide sets out the funding rules for RSS and forms part of institutions’ Department for Education (DfE) funding agreements.

Institutions must be able to show they comply with the funding rules at any audit.

Residential Support Scheme data collection guidance

Read the guidance to find out how to access and complete the digital form to report the use of your RSS allocation for the 2024 to 2025 academic year .

Updates to this page

Published 27 March 2024
Last updated 1 October 2025 show all updates
  1. We have added guidance for providers on how to complete the digital form to confirm how they used their Residential Support Scheme allocation for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.

  2. First published.

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