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Glossary

Learning delivery funding and monitoring

Records held against a single aim that carry funding, eligibility, support and monitoring information for that aim.

In full

Learning delivery funding and monitoring records pair a type with a code and sit against one aim. They cover areas such as the source of funding, eligibility for an entitlement, learning support, restart status and local monitoring.

Because they change the calculation rather than the validity of the record, errors here are usually found through funding reports and reconciliation rather than through validation.

The rules behind this

Official requirement

Funding and monitoring records, held at both learner and learning-delivery level, carry the eligibility, entitlement, support and monitoring information that the funding calculation and assurance reports depend on.

Where this comes up

diagnostic

A funded learner has no eligibility evidence on file

Funding has been claimed for the learner, but the college cannot produce the evidence that they were eligible for it. The claim may be entirely correct and still fail, because at audit the evidence is the claim.

module

Adult Skills Fund: earning, evidencing and reconciling

An allocation you have to earn, with eligibility that must be evidenced before you claim, and a reconciliation at the end that can reduce what you keep.

diagnostic

A learner is flagged on a data quality or funding monitoring report

A record meets the criteria of a report that identifies data worth checking. That is a request to investigate, not a statement that the record is wrong. Some flagged records are entirely correct and simply need their evidence to be locatable.

diagnostic

An aim is on the ILR but generates no funding

The aim validates and appears on the ILR, but generates no earnings. Validation and funding are different tests: a record can be perfectly valid and still not qualify for funding.

module

Working data quality and funding monitoring reports

Reports that flag records for investigation are the most useful assurance tool available, and the most commonly misread. A flag is a question, not a finding.

diagnostic

Learning support is claimed but the evidence chain is incomplete

A learning support claim has been made, but one of the links in the chain is missing: the assessment of need, the record of support actually delivered, the cost of delivering it, or the recording that triggers the claim.

Sources

These are the official documents this page rests on. Where a figure, a deadline or an exact rule matters, the document is the authority and this page is the explanation.

Adult Skills Fund funding and performance management rules 2026 to 2027 (opens in a new tab)

GOV.UKOfficial funding document2026–27Awaiting first verification

ILR specification 2026 to 2027 (opens in a new tab)

Department for EducationOfficial technical document2026–27Awaiting first verification

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