2025–26 historical guidance. This is what DfE published for 2025–26 and it may have been superseded. Read the current FRM06
Continuing learners from last academic year who do not appear in this year’s ILR
A funding monitoring report identifies records and patterns that DfE wants providers to investigate and be able to explain. Appearing on one does not by itself mean a record is wrong. Many flagged records are correct and simply need their evidence produced; others turn out to need a correction.
Where this comes from
Every word below is DfE’s own, read from the published guidance on 19 September 2026. Nothing in this section was written by FEFunding.
Summary
Your current year’s ILR must include any learning aims which were reported as continuing (completion status 1 - the learner is continuing or intending to continue the learning activities leading to the learning aim) in the previous year’s final ILR return, even if the actual end date is in the previous funding year. Failure to report timely and accurate withdrawals data in your previous year’s R14 return may have resulted in a funding overclaim and could also impact the calculation of qualification achievement rates (QARs).
Funding streams reviewed
- DfE ASF (formula-funded provision)
- apprenticeships (from 1 May 2017)
- advanced learner loans
- 16 to 19 study programmes
- T Levels
What you need to do
You must report this data to us. You must report all withdrawals within three months of the learner finishing and by the final collection of the funding year.
What we will do
We may contact you in-year to understand the reasons for this data error and ensure data is reported accurately. If correcting this data triggers FRM27, then we will recover any funding overclaim from that report for errors that remain in your R14 data return.
Changes from previous funding year
None
What this means in practice
The Academy does not yet have an explanation of FRM06 that it stands behind, so it is showing you DfE’s wording and nothing of its own. We would rather say that than publish a paragraph nobody has checked against the guidance above. Ask about your specific situation or tell us this is missing.
Funding streams this report reviews
DfE also names advanced learner loans. The Academy has no section for that stream yet, so it is listed here as published rather than mapped onto something only approximately similar.
FRM06 in other funding years
Working through it in your own system
- Read the official wording for this report and note exactly which records it identifies.
- Find those records in your own data using the fields the report names.
- For each one, decide whether the record is correct and simply needs its evidence produced, or genuinely wrong.
- Trace a wrong record back to the entry in your source system that produced it, rather than to the file it appeared in.
- Correct it at that entry, regenerate and resubmit.
- Keep the evidence and the reason for the change together, so the record is explainable at audit.
The Academy has no verified supplier guidance for this report yet. Menu locations differ between product versions and between colleges on the same version, so we do not publish navigation we have not confirmed. The steps above are what has to be true in the data, which is the same in every system.
If the record does turn out to be wrong. Correct the record in the system where the data is entered, then regenerate the ILR file and resubmit it. Editing the generated file directly removes the symptom and leaves the cause in place, so the same record returns at the next submission with nobody expecting it. Keep a note of what was changed and why: that note is what makes the correction explainable later.