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Guidance

16 to 19 funding: rates and formula

The funding rates and formula used to calculate the education and skills funding arrangements for 16 to 19 year olds.

From:
Department for Education and Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
Published
19 May 2015
Last updated
518 JuneMarch 20252026 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

16 to 19 funding: 20252026 to 20262027 rates and formula

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Funding16 guidanceto for19 youngfunding: people2025 2024 to 20252026 rates and formula

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Funding guidance for young people 20232024 to 20242025 rates and formula

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Details

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.

The latest guidance covers the period 1 August 2025 to 31 July 2026 and is our current advice for academic year 2025 to 2026. You can see the changes from the previous year by looking in our ‘what’s new’ section.

Updates to this page

Published 19 May 2015
Last updated 518 JuneMarch 20252026 + show all updates

  2. We have updated the 16 to 19 funding: 2025 to 2026 rates and formula guide to show the increased rates and programme cost weightings for 16 to 19 funding in academic year 2025 to 2026.

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Update history

2026-03-18 11:00
Added ‘16 to 19 funding: 2026 to 2027 rates and formula’.

2025-06-05 13:37
We have updated the 16 to 19 funding: 2025 to 2026 rates and formula guide to show the increased rates and programme cost weightings for 16 to 19 funding in academic year 2025 to 2026.

2025-04-30 10:05
We have updated the 16 to 19 funding: 2025 to 2026 rates and formula guide with new T Level funding rates.

2025-03-26 12:25
We have added the 16 to 19 funding rates and formula for 2025 to 2026. You can see the changes from the previous year by looking in our ‘what’s new’ section.

2024-03-27 10:07
We have published the funding rates and formula guidance for young people for the 2024 to 2025 academic year. We have removed the 2021 to 2022 rates and formula guidance.

2023-07-21 14:21
We have updated this page to show all the changes for 2023 to 2024 due to the extra funding announced in July. You can see all the changes in our what’s new section.

2023-03-29 11:14
We’ve added the ‘Funding guidance for young people 2023 to 2024 rates and formula’ documents and removed the ‘Funding guidance for young people 2020 to 2021 rates and formula’ and ‘Funding guidance for young people 2019 to 2020 rates and formula’ documents from this page. We have included a link to The National Archives so users can review the guidance for previous years.

2022-03-30 12:04
Updated to include the 2022 to 2023 funding guidance for young people: rates and formula