Financial management for further education providers

Preparing colleges' annual financial statements, financial assurance and accountability requirements and tools to help colleges improve their financial performance. 

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Services

• Advanced learner loans facility requests

  Use the form to submit requests for a new facility or loans bursary for the 2024 to 2025 funding year.

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Guidance and regulation

• College accounts direction
  • Guidance
  • 6 November 2024
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Post-16 audit code of practice
  • Guidance
  • 5 September 2024
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
• College financial planning handbook and CFFR
  • Guidance
  • 6 August 2024
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
• Financial benchmarking tool for colleges
  • Guidance
  • 22 May 2024
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency
• ESFA funding claims and reconciliation
  • Guidance
  • 22 October 2024
  • Education and Skills Funding Agency

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News and communications

• Financial health notice to improve: The SMB Group
  • 25 October 2024
  • Department for Education
  • Correspondence
• Financial health notice to improve: Warwickshire College Group
  • 4 October 2024
  • Department for Education
  • Correspondence
• Financial health notice to improve: Lakes College West Cumbria
  • 3 September 2024
  • Department for Education
  • Correspondence
• Notice to improve: Weston College of Further and Higher Education
  • 24 May 2024
  • Department for Education
  • Correspondence
• Notice to improve: Newham Sixth Form College
  • 26 April 2024
  • Department for Education
  • Correspondence

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Research and statistics

• The costs of providing levels 4 and 5 in further education
  • 21 December 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Decisions about A level class sizes
  • 29 March 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Research

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Further education colleges in the funding simplification pilot
  • 27 March 2024
  • Department for Education
  • Transparency

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Organisations

• Education & Skills Funding Agency
• Department for Education