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Find out how to apply for a free qualification that could help you gain skills and improve your wage and job prospects.
Standards setting out the essential digital skills needed for life and work.
Buy multiple licences for Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) driving theory e-learning for all of the learner drivers you teach or drivers you employ.
Details of the funding system for the DfE or DWP funded adult skills fund (ASF).
Information about the qualifications available under the statutory digital entitlement.
Sets out the rules for provision funded by learners through advanced learner loans the funding year.
Details of the TechLocal grant funding programme to boost digital skills and jobs.
First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government
Templates and guidance for colleges and training organisations to use to provide data information to prospective learners.
Grant funding agreements and contracts issued to providers, which are either extensions of the 2025 to 2026 agreements and contracts, or recently procured contracts.
Grant funding agreements and contracts issued to providers, which are either extensions of the 2024 to 2025 agreements and contracts, or recently procured contracts.
Methodology for establishing maximum amounts for advanced learner loans designated qualifications and the maximum amounts for the funding year.
Definitions and guidance for each category on the learning aim reference service (LARS).
Operational guidance on the devolved adult skills fund (ASF).
Grant funding agreements and contracts issued to providers, which are either extensions of the 2023 to 2024 agreements and contracts or recently procured contracts.
Guidance for devolved authorities to support their use of the adult skills fund.
Funding rates that will apply from academic year 2024 to 2025 for adult skills provision funded by Department for Education.
Information on reviewing procedures and ensuring best practice for the appraisal of senior further education post holders and the performance of governing body chairs.
Guidance for providers explaining the policy decisions which have informed the adult skills fund funding rules.
This outlines the process awarding organisations must follow as part of the summer 2026 data exchange.
Statutory guidance for combined authorities exercising devolved adult education functions.
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