Guidance and regulation

Technical guidance on calculating funding allocations for 2024 to 2025.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 21 March 2024

• 19+ allocations technical guidance for 2024 to 2025

  1. Purpose This guidance sets out the methodologies and technical details…

• Adult business case 2024 to 2025 data return: guidance for completing the digital form

  Introduction This guidance helps you complete the adult business case form…

A comprehensive set of QAR resources to offer information and support for training providers.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 10 January 2024

How and when further education (FE) providers should submit data for the FE workforce data collection.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 17 April 2024

Information for education and skills training providers

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 6 February 2024

Use find a learning aim to search for specific aims. Also, find information about data sources for the individualised learner record (ILR).

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 29 June 2023

Provider data self assessment toolkit (PDSAT) and reports to help FE providers make accurate and complete individualised learner record (ILR) data returns.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 10 January 2023

This guidance provides details on how to register, manage your account and allocate user roles for Identity and Access Management System (IDAMS).

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 14 January 2022

ESFA college and local authority annual Accountability Agreements and the Local Needs Duty Information for 2024 to 2025

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 15 March 2024

Sets out details of the classification and coding system used to record non-regulated activity in the Individualised Learner Record (ILR).

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 19 September 2023

These documents specify how and when learner data collected is presented for analysis.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 12 March 2024

ESFA’s assurance and accountability requirements for post-16 providers including further education and sixth-form colleges and independent training providers.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 27 March 2024

We monitor the data reported to us as part of our assurance work to review how the funding system and funding rules operate.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 2 August 2023

Guidance on how to spot errors with your ILR data and how to resolve them.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 15 April 2024

Guidance for the FE sector in England to help them meet ‘Managing Public Money’ requirements, and other obligations resulting from reclassification

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 12 April 2023

A step by step process for ILR data returns, what you need to do and where to do it.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 17 March 2021

The regularly updated known issues document gives information on service problems the ESFA is aware of.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 22 February 2024

Guidance to help providers meet the requirements for individualised learner record (ILR) data returns.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 4 March 2020

The table details individualised learner record (ILR) data collection periods, planned learning aims reference data updates and proposed essential maintenance windows.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 28 March 2024

Sets out how the ESFA assesses the financial health of non-college training organisations that it holds or may hold a contract with.

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 23 November 2022

Information about how to claim funding for some types of learning adjustments that you cannot report in the individualised learner record (ILR)

• From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Updated: 21 September 2022