Guidance

Technical specification: further education for young people

The technical specification for the 16 to 19 funding calculation.

From:
Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
Published
27 October 2021
Last updated
16 August 2024 鈥� See all updates

Applies to England

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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.

This guidance outlines the technical specification that the Department for Education (DfE) has used for calculating further education funding.

Updates to this page

Published 27 October 2021
Last updated 16 August 2024 show all updates

  1. 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.

  2. We have created this page for the technical guides previously published for academic years 2017 to 2018 and 2018 to 2019.

  3. First published.

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