Inform January 2022
Updated 18 January 2022
Applies to England
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1. Information: Mid-Year funding claims for 2021 to 2022
The mid-year funding claim window will open at 9am on Tuesday 8 February 2022. Please submit your mid-year funding claim by 5pm on Friday 11 February 2022. This is slightly later than we originally published.
The claim form will be available on Submit Learner Data.
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)
The form will include your R06 ILR and Earnings Adjustment Statement (EAS) data and will be available from 9am on Tuesday 8 February 2022. You must include your forecasts for the remainder of the 2021 to 2022 funding year.
Once you have submitted your mid-year funding claim on Submit Learner Data, you will also be able to view it on Manage your education and skills funding.
You will not be able to complete the form after the deadline on Friday 11 February 2022.
For more information, please see the 2021 to 2022 funding claims guidance. The user guide to help you complete the form will be available from our ESFA funding claims and reconciliation guidance page.
If you have any queries about this, please contact your Territorial Manager.
2. Action: availability and review of provisional qualification achievement rates (QAR) 2020 to 2021 and data query window 31 January 2022
Provisional QAR 2020 to 2021 data will be released to providers from shortly. All the data will be made available through the View Your Education Data portal.
On reviewing the provisional data, providers will have until 5pm on Monday 31 January 2022 to inform us of any concerns about how we have implemented our published methodology.
You cannot request fixes or adjustments to your 2020 to 2021 Individualised Learner Record (ILR) data.
If you have any queries with the provisional data, please complete and submit the data query form which can be downloaded from GOV.UK and submit this via our online enquiry form, selecting the QAR query type, and ask us to assign your query to ‘ESFA Business Operations QAR’.
Alongside this release of data, following feedback from providers, we have also provided clarification across the business rules and technical specifications including:
- update to the exclusions table for Traineeships to include ‘Aims where unemployed learners claiming Universal Credit, Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA) or Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) in the Work Related Activity Group (WRAG) cannot continue their learning through to successful completion because they have started work’
- amendment to the contents table of the QAR datasets to include reference to ‘Orig_Learn_Start_Date’
These documents provide technical information about how we produce the QAR dataset and should be read alongside the business rules, which explain the methodology for calculating QARs for 2020 to 2021 and can be accessed on qualification achievement rates 2020 to 2021 on GOV.UK.
3. Information: Specification of the Individualised Learner Record for 2022 to 2023
The first version of the ILR specification for 2022 to 2023 will be published at the end of this January and will be available from guidance.submit-learner-data.service.gov.uk