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These documents provide statements of accounts and reports for the Social Fund.
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This document provides a statement of accounts for the Social Fund for the financial year 2022 to 2023.
Information and guidance on Social Outcomes Partnerships (also known as Social Impact Bonds) and the Life Chances Fund.
This document provides a statement of accounts for the Social Fund for the financial year 2021 to 2022.
This document provides a statement of accounts for the Social Fund for the financial year 2020 to 2021.
This document provides a statement of accounts for the Social Fund for the financial year 2018 to 2019.
Annual report by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the Social Fund 2020 to 2021.
This document provides a statement of accounts for the Social Fund for the financial year 2019 to 2020.
Annual report by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the Social Fund 2018 to 2019.
Annual report by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the Social Fund 2019 to 2020.
This document provides a statement of accounts for the Social Fund for the financial year 2017 to 2018.
This document provides a statement of accounts for the Social Fund for the financial year 2015 to 2016.
This document provides a statement of accounts for the Social Fund for the financial year 2016 to 2017.
This document provides a statement of accounts for the Social Fund for the financial year 2014 to 2015.
Estimated number of eligible recipients of Social Fund Cold Weather Payments in Great Britain.
How the Skills Funding Agency operates as a co-financing organisation for ESF and assures EU funding is correctly spent.
Annual report by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the Social Fund 2017 to 2018.
ESF co-financing organisations (opt-in organisations) role in the England 2014 to 2020 European Structural and Investment Funds programme.
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