Dance and Drama Awards guide
Funding rules for the Dance and Drama Awards schemescheme, which is incomeincome-assessed assessed support for tuition fees and living costs.
Applies to England
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The guide sets out the funding rules for the Dance and Drama Awards (DaDA) scheme for the relevant academic year and forms part of institutions’ Department for Education (DfE) funding agreements. Institutions must comply with the rules and must be able to show they comply at any audit.
DfE provides the funding for the DaDA scheme. Only institutions that are DfE approved to administer the scheme can offer DaDA funding to students.
Updates to this page
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Updated paragraph 7.3 to state that the head of an institution is required to sign off a return and that evidence to support the data must be retained, and to clarify the method and deadline for submitting a business case for errors.
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Added 'Dance and Drama Awards guide: academic year 2026 to 2027'.
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We have included the Disabled Students Allowance section in the DaDA guide for academic year 2025 to 2026.
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First published.
Update history
2026-09-08 10:52
Updated paragraph 7.3 to state that the head of an institution is required to sign off a return and that evidence to support the data must be retained, and to clarify the method and deadline for submitting a business case for errors.
2026-05-28 10:00
Added ‘Dance and Drama Awards guide: academic year 2026 to 2027’.
2025-06-17 14:07
We have included the Disabled Students Allowance section in the DaDA guide for academic year 2025 to 2026.
2025-04-23 13:39
First published.