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Guidance

College corporation financial management good practice guides

Information outlining good practice in college corporation financial management and assurance

Applies to England

Documents

ILR data integrity guidance

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The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025. All activity has moved to the Department for Education (DfE). You should continue to follow this guidance.

Guides for college corporation:

  • governors
  • accounting officers
  • principals/executiveprincipals and executive leaders
  • chief financial officers (CFOs)

Guidance is also available on fraud awareness: good practice for education and training providers.

These guides provide suggestions for good practice, they do not replace or modify any requirementsof setthe outrequirements in the following:

You can find more good practice information at the Association of Colleges.

Updates to this page

Published 17 June 2020
Last updated 23 JulySeptember 2025 + show all updates
  1. Updated 'Streamlined energy and carbon reporting for colleges' following publication of 2025 government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting.

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Update history

2026-08-12 10:00
Updated ‘Streamlined energy and carbon reporting for colleges’ following the publication of the 2026 government conversion factors for company reporting.

2025-09-23 12:02
Added a link to ‘Fraud awareness: good practice for education and training providers’.

2025-07-23 12:19
Updated ‘Streamlined energy and carbon reporting for colleges’ following publication of 2025 government emission conversion factors for greenhouse gas company reporting.

2024-10-09 10:10
Updated ‘Streamlined energy and carbon reporting for college corporations’ for the reporting year 2023 to 2024.

2023-01-25 14:05
We have updated section 6.4 ‘Methodology’ in the streamlined energy and carbon reporting for college corporations guidance, with links to a new Standardised Carbon Emissions Framework (SCEF), developed by the Alliance for Sustainability Leadership in Education (EAUC).