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From Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)
  • Information for colleges, training organisations and employers about the learning aim reference service, also known as LARS.

  • Advice for institutions on the financial support young people may be able to access to help them participate in education and training.

  • Details for 16 to 19 funded institutions on how funding will work in academic year 2025 to 2026.

  • An overview of 16 to 19 education funding and how we calculate.

  • Rules and guidance for using 16 to 19 formula funding allocated by ESFA.

  • Information about how we allocate 16 to 19 funding to institutions.

  • A framework to help schools to collect information about their income and expenditure.

  • Guidance about accessing the LRS organisational portal and latest releases. Includes the monthly headline report for national learners aged 14+.

  • Registration documents for learner registration bodies (LRB) and awarding organisations to gain access to the learning records service (LRS) portal and services.

  • Information for local authorities and settings about early years funding for the 2025 to 2026 financial year.

  • The funding rates and formula used to calculate the education and skills funding arrangements for 16 to 19 year olds.

  • Guides for learning providers, local authorities and awarding organisations on how to use the learning records service and manage event data challenges.

  • Guidance on DfE's post-16 funding assurance process for further education and new apprenticeship providers.

  • Guidance for academy trusts, external auditors and reporting accountants on preparing, auditing and submitting an academy trust's annual financial statements.

  • Details of the funding system used for apprenticeship frameworks and standards from 1 May 2017.

  • Information for local authorities, schools and colleges about high needs funding arrangements for the 2025 to 2026 financial and academic year.

  • Details of individualised learner record (ILR) data collection periods, proposed essential maintenance windows and planned learning aims reference data updates.

  • Statutory guidance for local authorities on producing and amending school financing schemes.

  • A tool and user guides to help further education (FE) providers submit accurate and complete individualised learner record (ILR) data returns.

  • How to create an academies complaints procedure that complies with the Education (Independent School Standards) (England) Regulations 2014.