Guidance

Technical specification: further education for young people

The technical specification for the 16 to 19 funding calculation.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 27 October 2021
• Last updated: 12 September 2025 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Technical specification: further education for 2025 to 2026

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Technical specification: further education for 2024 to 2025

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Details

This guidance outlines the technical specification that the Department for Education (DfE) has used for calculating further education funding.

Published 27 October 2021

Last updated 12 September 2025 + show all updates

1. 12 September 2025

   We have added the technical specification for further education for 2025 to 2026. We have removed the guidance document for 2023 to 2024, however you can find this in our national archives.

2. 16 August 2024

   We have added the technical specification: further education for young people for 2024 to 2025. We have removed the guidance documents for 2017 to 2018 through to 2022 to 2023, however you can find these in our national archives.

3. 10 November 2021

   We have created this page for the technical guides previously published for academic years 2017 to 2018 and 2018 to 2019.

4. 27 October 2021

   First published.