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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.
Sets out the rules for provision funded by learners through advanced learner loans the funding year.
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Details of the funding system for the DfE funded adult skills fund (ASF).
Information about the qualifications available under the statutory digital entitlement.
Grant funding agreements and contracts issued to providers, which are either extensions of the 2024 to 2025 agreements and contracts, or recently procured contracts.
Templates and guidance for colleges and training organisations to use to provide data information to prospective learners.
Methodology for establishing maximum amounts for advanced learner loans designated qualifications and the maximum amounts for the funding year.
Operational guidance on the devolved adult skills fund (ASF).
Statutory guidance for combined authorities exercising devolved adult education functions.
Guidance for providers explaining the policy decisions which have informed the adult skills fund funding rules.
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.
Definitions and guidance for each category on the learning aim reference service (LARS).
Memorandum of understanding between DfE and combined authorities, for the transition period before adult education functions are devolved.
Information on strategies employed by colleges and local authorities for the utilisation of the adult education budget.
Memoranda of understanding between DfE, mayoral combined authorities and the Mayor of London for the devolution or delegation of adult education functions.
Quarterly reporting guidance and form for local areas using Multiply funding to improve adult numeracy skills.
This report sets out our work over the last 18 months in response to concerns about qualifications used in the private security industry.
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