Guidance

Check how accurate your ILR data is with FIS

The Funding Information Service (FIS) is an offline tool for checking your individualised learner record (ILR) data.

From:
Education and Skills Funding Agency
Published
22 August 2019
Last updated
19 December 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

FIS known issues 2024 to 2025

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 31.5 KB

FIS user guide 2024 to 2025

PDF, 1.23 MB, 24 pages

FIS release guide 2024 to 2025

PDF, 174 KB, 5 pages

FIS known issues 2023 to 2024

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 31.8 KB

FIS user guide for 2023 to 2024

PDF, 1.39 MB, 26 pages

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FIS release guide 2023 to 2024

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Details

FIS helps you get your ILR data right. You must use the right version of FIS for the academic year you’re submitting data for.

You can download FIS for free and it works offline. It does two things:

  • checks data against the validation rules and produces a validation report so you can see where data needs refining
  • calculates provisional reports – only provisional as FIS doesn’t have access to up-to-date reference data

The known issues document will tell you if ESFA is experiencing any problems with the software.

You can view all previous documents for FIS on the National Archives website.

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Updates to this page

Published 22 August 2019
Last updated 19 December 2024 + show all updates

  1. Updated 'FIS release guide 2024 to 2025' and 'FIS known issues 2024 to 2025'.

  2. Added 'FIS User Guide 2024 to 2025' and 'FIS known issues 2024 to 2025'.

  3. Updated 'FIS known issues 2024 to 2025'.

  4. Added 'FIS User Guide 2024 to 2025' and 'FIS Release Guide 2024 to 2025'.

  5. Updated 'FIS known issues 2024 to 2025'.

  6. Added: FIS known issues 2024 to 2025

  7. Updated 'FIS known issues 2023 to 2024'.

  8. Added version 2324.8 to 'FIS release guide 2023 to 2024'. Removed 'FIS known issues 2021 to 2022', 'FIS release guide 2021 to 2022' and 'FIS user guide for 2021 to 2022'.

  9. Updates to: FIS known issues 2023 to 2024 and FIS release guide 2023 to 2024

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