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From Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)
  • The matrix standard is the the international quality standard for organisations that deliver information, advice and/or guidance to clients either as their sole purpose or as part of their wider service offer

  • Where to find a list of publicly-funded further education (FE) colleges in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

  • Skills Bootcamp funding guidance for learners starting Skills Bootcamps under contracts with DfE.

  • Information for local authorities, school leaders and governing bodies about their schools forum obligations and duties.

  • Information for local authorities, schools and the general public about local authority education funding and expenditure plans for 2024 to 2025

  • Subcontracting assurance arrangements for all Department for Education (DfE) funded post-16 providers.

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

  • A tool that helps smaller learning providers get the right structure for their individualised learner record (ILR) files.

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

  • Information about how industry placements for T Levels work and how employers can get involved.

  • Details for 16 to 19 funded institutions on how funding will work in academic year 2024 to 2025.

  • Good practice guidance to help academy trusts with their management accounting process in line with the requirements of the academy trust handbook.

  • Documents to help schools, colleges and training providers (LRBs) produce and upload batch files and deal with exceptions.

  • The post-16 budget grant will help institutions with their overall costs in the 2024 to 2025 financial year, following confirmation of the 2024 teacher pay award. 

  • Information allowing colleges established or designated under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 to compare their financial data with national totals and other organisations.

  • Best practice guidance for governing bodies of maintained schools, local authorities and academy trusts.

  • Information for voluntary-aided schools about capital funding, including relevant forms.

  • The Funding Information Service (FIS) is an offline tool for checking your individualised learner record (ILR) data.

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

  • Allocations for academic year 2024 to 2025 and the terms and conditions that local authorities, maintained schools and academies must follow.