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Guidance

Technical specification: further education for young people

The technical specification that ESFA uses for calculatingthe further16 educationto 19 funding for young people.calculation.

From:
Education
Department andfor Skills Funding AgencyEducation
Published
27 October 2021
Last updated
1612 AugustSeptember 20242025 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Technical specification: further education for 2025 young people 2024 to 20252026

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Technical specification: further education for young2024 people 2023 to 20242025

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Details

This guidance outlines the technical specification that Educationthe andDepartment Skillsfor FundingEducation Agency(DfE) (ESFA) has used for calculating further education funding for young people.funding.

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Published 27 October 2021
Last updated 1612 AugustSeptember 2024 + show2025 href="#full-history">+ show all updates

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2026-08-28 12:20
We have added the technical specification for further education for 2026 to 2027. We have removed the guidance document for 2024 to 2025, but you can find this in the National Archives.

2025-09-12 12:16
We have added the technical specification for further education for 2025 to 2026. We have removed the guidance document for 2023 to 2024, however you can find this in our national archives.

2024-08-16 14:13
We have added the technical specification: further education for young people for 2024 to 2025. We have removed the guidance documents for 2017 to 2018 through to 2022 to 2023, however you can find these in our national archives.