Financial management for further education providers

Preparing colleges' annual financial statements, financial assurance and accountability requirements and tools to help colleges improve their financial performance. 

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Services

• Advanced learner loans facility requests

  Use the form to submit requests for a new facility or loans bursary for the 2023 to 2024 funding year

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Guidance and regulation

• ESFA funding claims and reconciliation
  • Guidance
  • 6 February 2024
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
• ESFA college and local authority accountability agreements
  • Guidance
  • 15 March 2024
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Post-16 audit code of practice
  • Guidance
  • 27 March 2024
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Bite-size guides to aid colleges in meeting new requirements following reclassification
  • Guidance
  • 12 April 2023
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
• ESFA financial health assessment
  • Guidance
  • 23 November 2022
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency

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News and communications

• Letter to accounting officers: 20 March 2024
  • 20 March 2024
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
  • Correspondence
• Letter to independent training providers: February 2024
  • 28 February 2024
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
  • Correspondence
• New approaches to help support colleges
  • 28 July 2021
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
  • News story
• ESFA to simplify the way colleges submit their data
  • 12 September 2019
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
  • News story
• Sixth-Form College Commissioner: key financial indicators dashboard June 2015
  • 2 June 2015
  • Closed organisation: Education Funding Agency
  • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

• The costs of providing levels 4 and 5 in further education
  • 21 December 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Decisions about A level class sizes
  • 29 March 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Research

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Further education colleges in the funding simplification pilot
  • 27 March 2024
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Education & Skills Funding Agency
• Department for Education