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  • Sets out the learning aim class codes relevant to apprenticeship standards and funding bands that are applied to apprenticeship frameworks.

  • Information about how to get ESFA funding for post-16 education and training.

  • The high value courses premium (HVCP) is additional funding to encourage and support delivery of selected level 3 courses in subjects that lead to higher wage returns, to enable a more productive economy.

  • What training providers need to do to assess apprentices' prior learning and experience. Including how to record prior learning and calculate price reductions.

  • Subcontracting assurance arrangements for all ESFA funded post-16 providers.

  • Check if your students are compliant with the maths and English condition of funding.

  • Information about ESFA education and skills agreements and accountability agreements for 2024 to 2025.

  • The advanced maths premium is funding for additional students studying an eligible level 3 maths qualification.

  • 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.

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

  • Information for education and skills training providers on the funding claims and reconciliation process.

  • Explains how the FE capital transformation fund allocation is calulated and what eligible colleges and designated institutions can spend their allocations on.

  • Details of the bursary payment some apprentices may be entitled to if they are under 25 when they start an apprenticeship and they are or have been in care.

  • Explains how we calculate your 16 to 19 funding allocation.

  • Guidance on the Education and Skills Funding Agency's funding assurance process for further education and new apprenticeship providers.

  • Funding rates that will apply from the academic year 2024 to 2025 for adult skills provision funded by ESFA.

  • Advice about individualised learner record (ILR) funding returns for institutions funded by ESFA.

  • Using subcontractors in the delivery of apprenticeships, with some illustrative examples.

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

  • Grant funding agreements and contracts issued to providers, which are either extensions of the 2023 to 2024 agreements and contracts or recently procured contracts.