Learners undertaking English or maths within an apprenticeship when they have already achieved level 1 or above
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 will fund an apprentice up to level 2 in English or maths or both subjects where they do not already hold a suitable equivalent qualification. For 19+ apprentices, English and maths are an optional part of the programme. Where the apprentice already holds approved level 1 qualifications, they must start, continue to study, and take the assessments for a level 2 English or maths.
The latest funding rules confirm that apprentices with GCSE grades D to G or grades 3 to 1 have already met the level 1 requirement. They are not eligible for further funding at entry level or level 1.
Funding streams reviewed
- apprenticeships (from 1 May 2017)
What you need to do
You must recode the aims with Funding model code 99 (Non-funded (includes indirect DfE funding)) or follow the provider support manual guidance on correcting data errors after the R14 hard close submission of the previous year (aims with an incorrect funding model).
What we will do
We will recover any funding overclaim 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 FRM13 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
FRM13 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.