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EFA e-bulletin for schools, colleges, local authorities and other 16 to 19 providers: 11 February 2016

Published 12 February 2016

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1. Action: 2016 spring school census

The deadline for approved submissions for the spring census is Wednesday 17 February 2016. We sent an email on Friday 5 February to clarify the requirements for the childcare module on the 2016 spring census.

Further information on submitting your spring census return is on the school census website.

2. Information: post-16 funding video 2016 to 2017

We have produced a new video to update post-16 institutions about the timeline and process for post-16 allocations in 2016 to 2017.

3. Reminder: students with GCSE maths and/or English at grade D

Full-time students who have a grade D GCSE in either maths or English must be enrolled on GCSE or an approved IGCSE qualification. This came into effect from 1 August 2015.

Full-time students with a grade D will not qualify for funding if they are enrolled on stepping stone qualifications.

Full-time students are those on a study programme of:

  • at least 540 planned hours if aged 16 and 17
  • at least 450 hours if aged 18

Part-time students can continue to enrol on stepping stone qualifications. Further information on 16 to 19 funding: maths and English condition of funding is available on GOV.UK.

Individualised Learner Record (ILR) users can run Funding Information System (FIS) reports to check that their students are compliant with this requirement.

School census users can use the interactive tool to help understand how their school census data is used.

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