ESFA weekly round-up – Issue 393

Education & Skills Funding Agency’s weekly round-up of business-critical information to ESFA-funded colleges, other training organisations and direct grant employers. (28 Feb 2018). 

Non levy apprenticeship procured growth requests

You are now able to submit requests for increases to your non levy apprenticeship procured contract value for the funding year 2017 to 2018 and 2018 to 2019.

Please forward completed growth request forms to Provider Performance Managementbefore 5pm on Tuesday 6 March.

Before submitting your request, please check the newly published apprenticeship section of the performance management rules 2017 to 2018.

For further information or related queries, please contact your provider manager.

National Apprenticeship Week 2018

Next week (5 to 9 March) is National Apprenticeship Week 2018 (#NAW2018).

The theme of the Week is Apprenticeships Work, and gives opportunities to showcase how apprenticeships work for individuals, employers, local communities and the wider economy.

All over the country employers, schools, colleges and training organisations are supporting the week by holding events and supporting on social media channels.

To see what is happening near you, please view our events map. If you are running an event, please ensure you have submitted an online form.

For more information about the week visit GOV.UK. You can also support or follow activity on our Twitter (using the #NAW2018) or LinkedIn pages.

Funding rules monitoring reports on the hub

We have made the following improvements to the funding monitoring reports on the Hub:

• the ‘funding line type’ summary has been reinstated

• a new ‘total investigated aims’ figure replaces ‘total submitted aims’ – this will make the proportion of errors more accurate

• we have included advanced learner loans funding paid by the Student Loans Company all relevant reports

• we have included advanced learner loans data in reports 5, 6 and 7

• we have removed level 4 qualifications from report 28, the report now only identifies advanced learner loans for level 3 qualifications