ESFA Update local authorities: 20 February 2019
Published 20 February 2019
Applies to England
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1. Action: T Levels – how to express an interest to deliver in 2021 to 2022 academic year, including the transition offer
The Department for Education (DfE) is looking to identify the next tranche of providers to deliver T Levels in the 2021 to 2022 academic year.
In January 2019 we published information about how institutions meeting set criteria can express an interest to deliver T Levels in 2021 to 2022 academic year.
The deadline to submit an expression of interest is midnight on Thursday 28 February 2019.
2. Information: year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium for 2018 to 2019
We have published the year 7 literacy and numeracy conditions of grant and allocations for the 2018 to 2019 financial year.
3. Information: update to guidance on place funding for special free schools
We have updated our guidance on place funding for special free schools from 2019 to 2020. Our policy on the handling of place funding for special free schools has changed since 2018 to 2019 and this guidance provides further details on how the new policy will work.
4. Information: 16 to 19 revenue funding allocation statements for 2019 to 2020
At the end of the week, we will start to upload 16 to 19 revenue funding allocation statements for schools and academies to ESFA Information Exchange. At the same time, we will publish a short video and guidance to help you understand your allocation statement.
We expect most statements to be available by the end of February and the remainder by the end of March. Your allocation includes a breakdown of our calculation. Please use your allocation calculation toolkit and guidance to understand the data we have used.
You can find your file in the ESFA Information Exchange in the Document Exchange ‘Revenue Funding’ folder, under ‘AY 2019-20 (2019/20)’.
The deadline for business cases is 30 April 2019. We will apply minimum thresholds to decide whether we will consider your case. Please review the thresholds published in the supporting information before submitting your business case.
Please contact us using our online enquiry form if you have any questions.
5. Information: ESFA communication survey – findings and next steps
In December 2018, we ran a customer survey to gain feedback as part of our constant drive for improving our communications. The feedback has provided us with insight into how customers communicate with us and find out about issues relevant to them.
We have published the survey findings along with the next steps we will take to improve our communications to you.
We would like to thank everyone who responded to the survey.