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  • Guidance for education providers on how to claim funding that you cannot report in the individualised learner record (ILR).

  • Guidance about programme cost weightings in the 16 to 19 funding formula for sector subject areas from academic year 2023 to 2024.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Statutory guidance for the development and review of local skills improvement plans (LSIPs).

  • Training provider agreement with the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) to pay training providers to carry out apprenticeship training.

  • Technical documents for the apprentice bulk upload facility for training providers to use in the apprenticeship service.

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

  • Explains how we calculate the different funding lines for adult education and skills funding.

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

  • Definitions and guidance for each category on the learning aim reference service (LARS).

  • Guidance for all institutions with a 16 to 18 Residential Support Scheme (RSS) allocation in the academic year 2025 to 2026.

  • Funding to support the delivery of English and maths to those students who have not yet attained a grade 9 to 4 GCSE or equivalent in either or both subjects.

  • Information on how DfE monitors post-16 data returns to ensure funding is eligible and the data used to drive funding calculations and allocations processes is robust.

  • Information on the large programme uplift, which applies to high quality, larger study programmes that provide students with additional stretch and challenge.

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

  • Guidance on how we allocate funding for this grant.

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

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