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About this guidancePurpose

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

WeThis use this page to explainexplains how we allocate funding for:

• ESFA funded adult skillseducation funding (ASF)budget (AEB), including 19 to 24 traineeships

• advanced learner loans (ALL) facilities and bursaries

• apprenticeships16 carry-into and18 apprenticeshiptraineeships non-levyand extensions

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Weapprenticeships willcarry-in issue all allocations through manage your education and skillsapprenticeship fundingnon-levy service.extensions

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

We issued all allocations through manage your education and skills funding service.

How we calculate allocations

We confirm the approach used for calculating allocations when we issue the allocations. Each year, we aim to startcommunicate communicating 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

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

19+ funding for academic year 20242023 to 20252024

WeThe 19+ explainallocations technical guidance sets out in detail the allocation methodologies and data sources we useused to calculate ESFA funded allocations for the 20242023 to 20252024 funding yearyear. in the 19+ allocations technical guidance. We publish information in this guidance as we issue funding allocations.

We aim to publish calculators in April to help you understand your allocation value.

You can find 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 20242023 to 2025.2024.

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

Month	Activity	Latest News
FebruaryDecember 2022	6 December 2022 is the ILR R04 deadline. This will be used to calculate procured non-levy apprenticeship allocations for 2023 to 2024	The R04 data return is now closed. Reminder issued in Update on 23 November 2022
February 2023	We will issue apprenticeships non-levy extension contracts (for the 20242023 to 20252024 financial year) through manage your education and skills funding	Allocations issued on 1 March
March 20242023	Providers must sign their apprenticeships non-levy extension contracts by 2831 March 20242023 otherwise they will expire
March 2023	We aim to start to issue ESFA funded AEB and advanced learner loans allocations for the 2023 to 2024 funding year through manage your education and skills funding	Allocations issued 31 March
March 2023	We will publish guidance to support allocations including calculators and business case forms	Allocations technical guidance and calculators published 31 March
March 2023	The business case deadline for apprenticeships non-levy extensions is 31 March 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	This window is now closed
April 2023	The business case deadline for ESFA funded AEB and advanced learner loans allocations is 28 April 2023. This is to fix significant data errors, not an opportunity to request growth	This window is now closed
June 2023	6 June 2023 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 2023 to 2024 allocations	The R10 data return is now closed
June 2023	We will communicate the outcomes of ESFA funded AEB, advanced learner loans and apprenticeship non-levy business cases
July 2023	We will issue apprenticeship carry-in, AEB (Adult skills and Free Courses for Jobs) and 16 to 18 traineeships and 19 to 24 traineeship allocations through manage your education and skills funding
July/ August 2023	We will issue funding agreements/contracts to providers. Providers must digitally sign agreements/contracts on manage your education and skills funding

Business cases

When to submit a business case

You should only submit business cases where:where

• you have made significant data errors that have affected your funding allocation
• you had a contract value for the 20232022 to 20242023 funding year but did not use it, therefore you have not received a 20242023 to 20252024 allocation

The deadline tofor submitapprenticeships anon-levy extension allocations business casecases is 2831 March 2023.

The deadline for apprenticeshipsESFA non-levyfunded (procured.)AEB and advanced learner loans is 28 April 2023.

The deadline for apprenticeship carry-in and 16 to 24 traineeship allocations is 6 September 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

PleaseYou useshould ourcomplete onlinethe digital business case formtemplate toand submitsend yourit request.

A link to theus formusing guidanceour isonline alsoenquiry available within the 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 20232022 to 20242023 funding year but did not receive a 20242023 to 20252024 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

WeWhere aimcases tohave communicatebeen received for ESFA funded AEB and advanced learner loans, with full information before the deadline, we aimed to communicate outcomes in June 20242023.

Complex viacases Documentcan exchange.take longer to investigate, and we aim to communicate outcomes for these before 1 August 2022.

Technical guidance

• 19+If fundingsuccessful, allocationchanges guidancewill forbe 2024reflected toin 2025contracts 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

  Funding rules, rates and formula

  • ESFA: funding rules, rates and formula

  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

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