19+ funding allocations

Purpose

The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) is accountable for funding education and skills for children, young people and adults.

This page explains how we allocate funding for:

• ESFA funded adult education budget (AEB), including 19 to 24 traineeships

• advanced learner loans (ALL) facilities and bursaries

• 16 to 18 traineeships and bursaries, for providers without 16 to 19 funding

• apprenticeships carry-in and apprenticeship non-levy extensions

We will publish information and updates to this page as they become available.

We issued all allocations through [managemanage your education and skills funding service (MyESF) .

How we calculate allocations

We confirm the approach used for calculating allocations when we issue the allocations. Each year, we aim to communicate the allocations by the end of March. We calculate allocations on an annual basis using nationally consistent methodologies, taking into account the current policy position and affordability.

The general principles we typically follow at present when setting allocations are to:

• reflect historic (lagged) delivery and current allocations to ensure future allocations are in line with what providers can realistically earn

• ensure all providers are treated fairly and equitably

• protect public funds and meet principles of public law

• enable providers to respond to government priorities.priorities

We are reviewing the approach to allocations for future years as part of our wider funding and accountability reforms.

19+ funding for academic year 20222023 to 20232024

The The 19+ allocations technical guidance sets sets out in detail the allocation methodologies and data sources we used to calculate ESFA funded allocations for the 20222023 to 20232024 funding year. We publishedpublish calculators in April to help you understand your allocation value.

Information on previous years allocation methodologies is available below in supporting documents.

Allocation timeline

We will publish information and updates to the timeline as we make progress on delivering allocations for 20222023 to 2023.2024.

Please check out the latest news column on the timeline and our ESFA Update for regular updates.

Month	Activity	Latest News
December 20212022	6 December 20212022 is the ILR R04 deadline.deadline. This will be used to calculate procured non-levy apprenticeship allocations for 20222023 to 20232024	The R04 data return is now closed. Reminder issued in Update on 2423 November 2021.2022
MarchFebruary 20222023	We will issue apprenticeships non-levy extension contracts (for the 20222023 to 20232024 fundingfinancial year) through MyESF.MyESF	Allocations issued on 15 March
March 20222023	Providers must sign their apprenticeships non-levy extension contracts by 31 March 20222023 otherwise they will expire.expire	This deadline has now passed
March 20222023	We aim to start to issue ESFA funded AEB,AEB 19and to 24 traineeships, advanced learner loans and 16 to18 traineeships allocations for the 20222023 to 20232024 funding year through MyESF.	Allocations issued on 31 March
March 20222023	We will publish guidance to support allocations including calculators and business case forms.forms	Allocations technical guidance issued on 31 March. We published calculators by 16 April.
AprilMarch 20222023	The business case deadline for apprenticeships non-levy extensions is 0131 AprilMarch 2022.2023. This is to address significant R04 data errors that have affected the allocation we have calculated for you. It is not an opportunity to request growth.growth	The deadline has now passed
MayApril 20222023	The business case deadline for ESFA funded AEB,AEB and advanced learner loans and 16 to 18 traineeships allocations is 0628 MayApril 2022.2023. This is to fix significant data errors, not an opportunity to request growth.growth	The deadline has now passed
May 2022	We will communicate the outcomes of apprenticeships non-levy extension allocations business cases.	Outcomes communicated from 1 July 2022
June 20222023	6 June 20222023 is the R10 data return deadline. It is important that providers with apprenticeship carry-in or traineeship allocations submit accurate data as we will use this data to set 20222023 to 20232024 allocations	The deadline has now passed
June 20222023	We will communicate the outcomes of ESFA funded AEB, advanced learner loans and 16apprenticeship tonon-levy 18 traineeships business cases.cases	Outcomes communicated from 1 July 2022
July 20222023	We will issue apprenticeship carry-in and 16 to 1824 traineeship market entry allocations through MyESF.
July/ August 20222023	We will issue funding agreements/contracts to providers. Providers must digitally sign agreements/contracts on MyESF.

Business cases

When to submit a business case

You should only submit business cases where

• you have made significant data errors that have affected your funding allocation.
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• you had a contract value for the 2022 to 2023 funding year but did use it, therefore you have not received a 2023 to 2024 allocation

The deadline for apprenticeships non-levy extension allocations business cases wasis 131 AprilMarch 2022.2023.

The deadline for ESFA funded AEB,AEB 19 to 24 traineeships, 16 to 18 traineeships (for providers without 16 to 19 funding) and advanced learner loans wasis 628 MayApril 2022.2023.

When not to submit a case

We do not accept requests for growth or cases that are not related to data errors.

How to submit a case

You should have completed the business case template and send it to us using our online enquiry form.

Thresholds for business case

We apply standard minimum thresholds to decide whether we will consider a case.

For cases where you had contract value for the 2022 to 2023 funding year but did not receive a 2023 to 2024 allocation, you will receive a letter to inform you:

• the maximum you can request is £25,000 or your current contract value, whichever is lower

For cases where you have made significant data errors that have affected your funding allocation:

• minimum overall impact must be more than 5% of allocation

When you will receive a response

Where cases have been received with full information before the deadline, we aimed to communicate outcomes of non-levy apprenticeships extensions cases in May 2022 and adult allocations cases in June 2022.2023.

Complex cases can take longer to investigate, and we aim to communicate outcomes for these before 1 August 2022.

If successful, changes will be reflected in contracts from the start of the funding year

Supporting documents

• 19+ funding allocation guidance for 2023 to 2024

• 19+ funding allocation guidance for 2022 to 2023

• 19+ funding allocations guidance for 2021 to 2022

• 19+ funding allocations guidance for 2020 to 2021

• 19+ funding allocations guidance for 2019 to 2020

Published allocations

• 2022 to 2023 funding allocations to training providers

• 2021 to 2022 funding allocations to training providers

• 2020 to 2021 funding allocations to training providers

• 2019 to 2020 funding allocations to training providers

• 2018 to 2019 funding allocations to training providers

• 2017 to 2018 funding allocations to training providers

• 2016 to 2017 funding allocations to training providers

• 2015 to 2016 funding allocations to training providers

• 2014 to 2015 funding allocations to training providers

• 2013 to 2014 funding allocations to training providers

• 2005 to 2013 funding allocations to training providers

Contact us

If you have a query, please use the ESFA online form