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FRM012026–27Investigate and explain

Learners repeating a previously achieved learning aim

Funding year2026–27Sources verifiedSources checked19 September 2026See the sourcesReport an issue

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

We do not fund learners to repeat a regulated qualification they have already achieved.

This does not apply to:

  • English and maths aims delivered through the ASF
  • GCSEs where the learner has not achieved grade 4 or above

For apprenticeships, you must not use funding to pay for training for knowledge, skills and behaviours the apprentice has already attained.

Funding streams reviewed

  • adult skills fund (formula-funded provision)
  • apprenticeships (from 1 May 2017)

What you need to do

You must code aims which are not eligible for funding as Funding model code 99 (Non-funded (includes indirect DfE funding)). If the aim is continuing from a previous year, you will need to follow the provider support manual guidance on correcting aims with an incorrect funding model after the R14 hard close submission.

For apprenticeships, you may need to review and renegotiate the price and off-the-job training hours, ensuring that minimum duration requirements can still be met.

What we will do

We will recover any funding overclaim for errors that remain in your R14 data return.

Changes from previous funding year

From this year, if an apprenticeship English or maths aim triggers both FRM01 and FRM13, the aim will only appear in your FRM13 report. The same aim will no longer appear on both reports.

What this means in practice

The Academy does not yet have an explanation of FRM01 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

FRM01 in other funding years

Working through it in your own system

  1. Read the official wording for this report and note exactly which records it identifies.
  2. Find those records in your own data using the fields the report names.
  3. For each one, decide whether the record is correct and simply needs its evidence produced, or genuinely wrong.
  4. Trace a wrong record back to the entry in your source system that produced it, rather than to the file it appeared in.
  5. Correct it at that entry, regenerate and resubmit.
  6. 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.

Work out whether your record is correct