Financial assurance: monitoring post-16 funding
Information on how ESFA monitors the data that providers return as part of the assurance work that reviews how the funding system and funding rules operate.
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Financial assurance: monitoring post-16 funding
This guidance explains how we monitor post-16 data returns to ensure funding is eligible and the data used to drive funding calculations and allocations processes is robust. We summarise the relevant rules and guidance for the current funding year to help you review your data returns and ensure funding is correct.
This guidance is for colleges, training providers and other providers delivering post-16 funding including 16 to 19 study programmes, T Levels, apprenticeships, adult skills fund, support funding and advanced learner loans. Specifically, it is aimed at those staff who submit data to us and those who review data quality.
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Updates to this page
Published 18 August 2021Last updated 31 July 2024 + show all updates
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We have added the financial assurance: monitoring post-16 funding for 2024 to 2025 guidance. We summarise the relevant rules and guidance for the current funding year to help you review your data returns and ensure funding is correct.
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We have added the Financial Assurance: Monitoring post-16 funding for 2023 to 2024 guidance.
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We have updated the Financial Assurance: Monitoring post-16 funding for 2022 to 2023 guidance document.
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We’ve updated the FRM43, 50 and 56 sections in the 2022 to 2023 document
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Type of change: new reports Details of change: Two new reports published externally and available from R12 2021 to 2022: FRM43 – 16 to 19 study programme learners with no planned learning hours, who are not identified as requiring additional learning support through either an EHC plan or self-identified LLDD and health problems. FRM69 – Proportion of planned EEP hours is greater than or equal to 50% of total planned hours and learner is not recorded with high needs. Addition of Monitoring post-16 funding for the 2022 to 2023 academic year guidance.
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We have added a guidance document with information about the apprenticeship off-the-job-training hours report (FRM37).
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Type of change: revision Details of change: FRM37 – Apprenticeship off-the-job training hours below the minimum Now also reports programmes where actual off-the-job training hours are below the 20% minimum.
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