ESFA Update local authorities: 26 October 2022
Published 26 October 2022
Applies to England
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1. Action: final funding claim for 2021 to 2022
The final funding claim window opened at 9am on Monday 24 October 2022.
Please submit your final funding claim by 5pm on Thursday 27 October 2022. The claim form will be available on Submit Learner Data.
Your principal or delegated authority must sign your claim digitally on Manage your education and skills funding by 5pm on Tuesday 1 November 2022.
You will need to submit a claim if you receive funds through these contracts:
- grant funded - ESFA funded adult education budget (AEB) (adult skills, community learning, 19 to 24 traineeships and national skills fund Level 3 adult offer)
- grant funded - advanced learner loans bursary (ALLB)
- 16 to 19 education
Once you have submitted your claim you will also be able to view it on the Manage your education and skills funding within fifteen minutes.
If you have any queries, please use ESFA help centre to contact us.
2. Reminder: autumn schools census 2022 closes 2 November
The 2022 autumn school census date was Thursday, 6 October. The deadline for approved submissions is Wednesday, 2 November.
The school census data will be used to finalise funding allocations. It is important that you check the accuracy of your schools’ returns before you approve them.
Our post-16 interactive census tool can help you understand how schools’ data is used to calculate 16 to 19 funding, in support of schools with sixth forms.
For the 2022 to 2023 academic year the school census will be collecting data about all tuition provided through the national tutoring programme (NTP).
Full guidance to help with completing the census is available on GOV.UK.
If you have any queries about the school census, please use our service request form.
3. Information: school improvement, monitoring and brokering grant allocations 2022 to 2023
The school improvement, monitoring and brokering grant allocations for the period September 2022 to March 2023 have now been published. These are the final allocations of this grant and are paid at 50% of the pro-rated per school level of the October 2021 allocations, with a minimum payment of £25,000.
Local authorities will recall that, with the future of the grant not confirmed until the January 2022 publication of the Government response to our consultation on ending the grant, authorities were permitted to carry over funding from financial year 2021 to 2022 in order to ease transition away from the grant. Local authorities should also note that, if an authority has not spent all of its funding by the end of 31 March 2023, then in line with the conditions of the grant, the Secretary of State may request repayment of any unspent monies.
4. Information: schools supplementary grant revised methodology for ‘new and growing’ schools and school level allocations second payment 2022 to 2023
We have published the allocations for the second payment of the schools supplementary grant, to cover the period September 2022 to March 2023.
The schools supplementary grant allocates £1.2 billion to mainstream schools and academies in 2022 to 2023. The funding rates remain the same as in the first payment of the grant.
Local authorities will receive their second payment in October 2022, with academies receiving their second payment in November 2022. Schools which have opened in the past 7 years and are adding year groups will receive their next payment of the schools supplementary grant in February 2023, to allow for adjustments in line with actual pupil numbers recorded on the October 2022 census.
5. Information: National Tutoring Programme (NTP) conditions of grant for 2022 to 2023
We have now published the NTP grant funding conditions of grant for the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
You can read more about how to use the grant in the 2022 to 2023 NTP guidance for schools..
6. Information: Homes for Ukraine education and childcare funding
The first Homes for Ukraine payment for education and childcare funding was made on 31 August 2022 and the balance of this quarter 1 payment will be made on 31 October 2022. Local authorities that did not receive any payment in August will receive their full quarter 1 payment on 31 October 2022.
You can find the allocations for quarter 2 payments, based upon the data returned by local authorities for arrivals between 1 June to 31 August 2022, on GOV.UK. The quarter 2 payments will also be made to local authorities on 31 October 2022.
You can also find the amount of funding allocated per child for each quarter of 2022 to 2023 and the conditions of grant in the guidance.
Funding can only be used for the provision of education and childcare for children ages 2 to18 who have entered via the Homes for Ukraine visa route.
7. Information: 16 to 19 and adult revenue funding allocations for 2022 to 2023
We have published the 16 to 19 revenue funding allocations for academic year 2022 to 2023 on GOV.UK.
The publication covers schools, academies and further education institutions funded by ESFA for 16 to 19 year olds and 19 to 25 year olds with an education, health and care (EHC) plan.
We have also published the adult, apprenticeship and traineeship funding allocations for academic year 2022 to 2023 for training providers.
The publication covers the funding values for colleges, training organisations and employers with an adult education budget, apprenticeship, advanced learner loan or traineeship contract for 2022 to 2023.
We publish both sets of allocations data annually in the interests of transparency.
8. Information: provider data self-assessment toolkit (PDSAT)
For the 2022 to 2023 funding year, we expect to release the online version of PDSAT next month.
We have published a PDSAT online update with more information on GOV.UK. This contains information on the opportunity for providers to pre-register in advance of release, enabling them to access PDSAT online as soon as it is available.
The pre-registration period for providers is now open and will be available for two weeks. Providers will be able to pre-register by completing our online this form.
We will be releasing a similar pre-registration phase for non-providers (auditors, consultants, MCAs etc) next week.
9. Information: local authority apprenticeship and traineeship weekly vacancy reports
Each week we produce a set of reports showing all live apprenticeship and traineeship vacancies in each local authority area. The reports are an excel version of the Find an apprenticeship website.
These reports are used by career advisers, teachers, and stakeholders such as DWP work coaches and school advisers to promote the opportunities available.
If you would like to sign up to receive the reports then please contact Communications.ESFA@education.gov.uk.
Please state which regional report you would like to receive:
- North
- Midlands
- South
- London and Southeast
- or you can opt to receive reports for all regions