Guidance

Check ILR reports for possible data errors in your return

Guidance on how to spot errors with your individualised learner record (ILR) data and how to resolve them.

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

Applies to England

Documents

Understand your funding: using the dashboard

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2024 to 2025 ILR funding reports

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2023 to 2024 ILR funding reports

PDF, 551 KB, 64 pages

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2022 to 2023 ILR funding reports

PDF, 483 KB, 57 pages

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2021 to 2022 ILR funding reports

PDF, 467 KB, 55 pages

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2020 to 2021 ILR funding reports

PDF, 444 KB, 54 pages

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2019 to 2020 ILR funding reports

PDF, 441 KB, 45 pages

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2018 to 2019 ILR funding reports

PDF, 427 KB, 44 pages

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2017 to 2018 ILR funding reports

PDF, 202 KB, 36 pages

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Details

If your payments are not what you expected, it may mean there’s a problem with your data. These guides help you understand your ILR reports and how the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) makes some of its payment calculations.

Updates to this page

Published 22 August 2019
Last updated 4 November 2024 + show all updates

  1. We have updated the understand your funding: using the dashboard guidance.

  2. We have updated the 2024 to 2025 ILR funding reports guidance.

  3. We have updated the 'Understand your funding: using the dashboard' guidance to clarify how to gain access to the dashboard and that the earliest data on the dashboard is for academic year 2023 to 2024.

  4. We have updated the 'Understand your funding: using the dashboard' guidance for clarity around devolved funding and what the total allocation value includes for 16 to 19 contracts. We've added a new 'What’s not included in the contract values data' section (5.1) and have added more definitions to the terminology section (6).

  5. We have updated 'Understand your funding: using the dashboard' guidance to include two new sections: section 4 'Year on year data' and section 5 'Contract values'.

  6. We have added new guidance on using the 'understand your funding' dashboard.

  7. We have added the 2023 to 20234 ILR funding reports guidance document.

  8. We have added the 2022 to 2023 ILR guidance document.

  9. We have added the 2021 to 2022 ILR funding report guidance.

  10. We have updated the 2020 to 2021 ILR funding reports guidance

  11. The 2020 to 2021 ILR funding reports guidance has been added.

  12. We have updated the 2019 to 2020 ILR report guidance to include a section on the new non-contracted devolved adult education activity report. We've also updated the ALLB occupancy report section to update the criteria for appearing in the report.

  13. We have published the mainstream funding calculation rule-base for adult skills for 2019 to 2020.

  14. We have added the 2019 to 2020 ILR funding report guidance

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