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  • Introduction to Qualification Achievement Rates (QARs)

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

    • From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
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  • Further education workforce data collection

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

    • From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
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  • How to register for an IDAMS account

    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
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  • College financial planning handbook and CFFR

    Guidance for sixth-form and further education colleges on preparing and submitting their College Financial Forecasting Return (CFFR) and supporting commentary.

    • From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
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  • ILR data: provider data self-assessment toolkit (PDSAT)

    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
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  • Find a learning aim and ILR sources of data

    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
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  • ESFA financial health assessment

    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
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  • Post-16 audit code of practice

    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
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  • Learning aim class codes

    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
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  • College accounts direction

    Guidance on preparing and submitting annual report and financial statements (accounts) to the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA).

    • From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
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  • Check ILR reports for possible data errors in your return

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

    • From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
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  • Bite-size guides to aid colleges in meeting new requirements following reclassification

    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
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  • 19+ funding allocations guidance: 2024 to 2025

    Technical guidance on calculating funding allocations for 2024 to 2025.

    • From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
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  • ESFA college and local authority accountability agreements

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

    • From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
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  • ILR standard file specifications and reference data

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

    • From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
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  • Financial benchmarking tool for colleges

    A tool to help further education colleges, sixth-form colleges, and designated institutions (‘colleges’) established under the provisions of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 compare their financial performance with …

    • From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
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  • Check how accurate your ILR data is with FIS

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

    • From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
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  • Submit Learner Data known issues

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

    • From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
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  • Set up your ILR and collect data with the Learner Entry Tool

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

    • From: Education and Skills Funding Agency
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  • Financial assurance: monitoring post-16 funding

    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
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