News and communications

Letter sent from David Withey, chief executive of the Education and Skills Funding Agency, to academy trusts in July 2023.

• Updated: 6 July 2023

DfE’s benchmarking tools help governors, trustees, headteachers, business professionals and local authorities to understand their data and how to use the results.

• Updated: 19 December 2022

Find out how the SRMA role can have an impact on improving outcomes for pupils.

• Updated: 1 March 2022

How school resource management adviser support has helped to identify potential savings of £303 million to be reinvested in academies and schools.

• Updated: 15 December 2021

Letter sent from Eileen Milner, chief executive of the Education Skills Funding Agency, to academy trusts in August 2020.

• Updated: 26 August 2020

Letter sent from Eileen Milner, chief executive of the Education Skills Funding Agency, to academy trusts in July 2020.

• Updated: 16 July 2020

Letters sent in October 2019 from Eileen Milner, chief executive of the Education and Skills Funding Agency, to academy chairs of trustees about high pay.

• Updated: 13 January 2020

Government publishes consultation improve transparency around local authority run schools

• Updated: 17 July 2019

Government issues new publication on setting executive pay in academy trusts

• Updated: 9 July 2019

The ESFA has published new guidance to support academy trusts in making decisions about executive pay.

• Updated: 9 July 2019

Government updates guide to hold academy trusts to account

• Updated: 27 June 2019

Letters sent from Eileen Milner, chief executive of the Education and Skills Funding Agency, to academy trust chairs of trustees.

• Updated: 24 May 2019

Letters from Eileen Milner, chief executive of the Education and Skills Funding Agency, to academy chairs of trustees about high pay.

• Updated: 24 May 2019

DfE launches a new academies chart of accounts as the first step to automated financial reporting.

• Updated: 14 May 2019

Lord Agnew writes to chairs of 94 academy trusts to ask for more details on executives earning six-figure salaries

• Updated: 10 May 2019

Lord Agnew, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the School System, writes to auditors about academy trust financial management and governance.

• Updated: 30 April 2019

Letter sent from Eileen Milner, chief executive of Education Skills Funding Agency, to academy trusts in March 2019.

• Updated: 15 March 2019

ESFA is extending its School Resource Management Advisers pilot, which found £35 million of savings and revenue generation opportunities, to August 2020.

• Updated: 7 December 2018

Education Secretary praises the diversity and accountability of the academies system, saying leaders “should be in the driving seat”.

• Updated: 11 October 2018

Letter sent from Eileen Milner, chief executive of Education Skills Funding Agency, to academy trusts in March 2018.

• Updated: 5 March 2018