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ESFA funding agreements and contracts

Template funding agreements and contracts from the Education and Skills Funding Agency.

From:
Education and Skills Funding Agency
Published
28 September 2018
Last updated
17 August 2022 — See all updates

For previous versions of ESFA’s grant funding agreements and contracts not listed on this page, please access these on the National Archives website.

Overview

Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) has a funding agreement or contract in place for each of the education and training providers it funds. The terms of the agreement or contract vary according to the type of education and/or training provision and the legal status of the entity.

This page contains grant funding agreements and contracts that ESFA has issued to providers (excluding academies).

The grant agreement/contract sets out:

  • the obligations of the education and training provider in return for receiving public funding from ESFA
  • the circumstances in which ESFA will take intervention action in the event of educational, financial or other failure of the provider

Academies

You can find model agreements for academies on the following pages:

Contract framework

We rolled out a new contract framework from May 2019.

To see what is included in the framework, including the main terms and conditions and each of the schedules, please watch our contract framework overview and contract data videos.

ESFA funding agreements for 2024 to 2025

Model funding agreements from Education and Skills Funding Agency for academic year 2024 to 2025.

ESFA funding agreements for 2023 to 2024

Model funding agreements from Education and Skills Funding Agency for academic year 2023 to 2024.

ESFA funding agreements for 2022 to 2023

Model funding agreements from Education and Skills Funding Agency for academic year 2022 to 2023.

ESFA funding agreements for 2021 to 2022

Model funding agreements from Education and Skills Funding Agency for academic year 2021 to 2022.

ESFA funding agreements for 2020 to 2021

Model funding agreements from Education and Skills Funding Agency for academic year 2021 to 2022.

ESFA funding agreements for 2019 to 2020

Model funding agreements from Education and Skills Funding Agency for academic year 2019 to 2020.

ESFA funding agreements for 2018 to 2019

Model funding agreements from Education and Skills Funding Agency for academic year 2018 to 2019.

ESFA funding agreements for 2017 to 2018

Model funding agreements from Education and Skills Funding Agency for academic year 2017 to 2018.

Updates to this page

Published 28 September 2018
Last updated 17 August 2022 + show all updates

  1. Added ESFA Funding Agreements and contracts 2022 to 2023

  2. Added ESFA Education and Skills agreements 2022 to 2023.

  3. We have added the ESFA funding agreements for 2021 to 2022.

  4. We have added the ESFA funding agreements and contracts for 2020 to 2021 documents to the collection

  5. We have added guidance

  6. First published.

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