Correspondence

ESFA e-bulletin for academies: 10 May 2018

Published 10 May 2018

This correspondence was withdrawn on 23 December 2019

This has been withdrawn as it’s out of date. The EFA e-bulletin has been replaced by ESFA Update.

Applies to England

Information: ESFA e-bulletin subscriptions

Along with many other organisations, we are currently reviewing the way that we send out information as we prepare to implement the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As a result of our review, we have decided to change the way in which people subscribe to the ESFA bulletin, which will take affect from 24 May 2018.

If you are an accounting officer, chief financial officer or chair of trustees at an academy trust or headteacher at an academy school, you will not need to do anything and you will continue to receive the email if we hold your contact information. To make sure we have up-to-date contact information for your academy, please follow the guidance on our providing and updating academy trust governance contacts page on GOV.UK.

If you are not one of the roles listed above and you want to continue receiving an email when we have published our newsletter, then you will need to subscribe to GOV.UK alerts. This way you will find out when we have published it online for you to read.

Reminder: academies budget forecast return outturn (BFRO)

This is a reminder that the deadline for all trusts to submit their BFRO is Monday 21 May. If you have not yet accessed this year’s form then please do so as soon as possible. Please make sure that your registration is fully operational and that you’re able to start inputting data well in advance of the deadline.

If you are experiencing difficulties accessing, completing or submitting your BFRO, please contact us using our online enquiry form.

Information: summer school census

The summer school census 2018 begins on Thursday 17 May. The deadline for approved submissions is Wednesday 13 June and the database will be closed to amendments from schools and local authorities on Wednesday 4 July.

The ‘beta’ release of the 2018 summer school census live COLLECT blade that is available for you to become familiar with, will remain available until 4pm on Friday 11 May.

The school census guide for the 2017 to 2018 academic year and a series of videos are available on the school census website.

Information: online T level data collection

We plan to publish an online T level data collection by the end of May. This data collection will gather information to inform T level implementation and inform future provider support programmes.

The data collection is for those providers who currently deliver vocational and technical study programmes to 16 to 18-year-old students at level 2 and 3. As these programmes could potentially become T levels in future. We have made the guidance for completion available on GOV.UK. This provides the opportunity for relevant providers to begin gathering the information required before the online data collection goes live in a few weeks. We will confirm in a future bulletin when the collection is open.

Information: feedback on 16 to 19 revenue funding allocation supporting videos

We published some videos in March and April to help you understand your 16 to 19 revenue funding allocation better. The videos were:

• overview of 16 to 19 revenue funding for 2018 to 2019 academic year
• general overview of the 16 to 19 statement for 2018 to 2019 academic year
• changes to the 16 to 19 statement for 2018 to 2019 academic year

We’d like to know what you thought about them. This survey is open until 10 June and will take you less than 2 minutes to complete. Your feedback will help us to improve your customer experience.

We appreciate you taking the time to complete it and welcome honest feedback.