Loans learning not being recorded in 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
You must accurately complete all ILR fields for loans-funded learners and make ILR returns as required in the ILR specification and the provider support manual.
Funding streams reviewed
- advanced learner loans
What you need to do
If the learner has passed the initial liability point for provision funded through an approved loan, you must record the learning aim as follows:
- record Funding model code 99 (Non-funded (includes indirect DfE funding))
- record the advanced learner loans indicator (Learning delivery FAM Type ADL, code 1)
- do not record a source of funding
If a learner leaves before the initial liability point or never attends, you must confirm this to SLC using the learning provider portal. You must not claim any funding from SLC.
What we will do
Where your data does not support the funding that you have received from SLC or claimed from the loan’s bursary, we will take action to get this corrected. We will also use this data to support our performance management processes.
Changes from previous funding year
None
What this means in practice
The Academy does not yet have an explanation of FRM20 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.
FRM20 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.