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Period 7, February · 2026–27

R07

A routine return in the part of the year where consistent monthly discipline pays for itself.

Deadline4 March 2027, 18:00168 days left

Preparation

Preparation for this return normally starts about 10 days out.

Readiness checklist

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This date follows the published monthly pattern and is marked provisional in the Academy until it has been reconciled against the official timetable. Confirm it against Data Collection Timetable 2026 to 2027 before planning around it.

Funding year2026–27Awaiting verificationSee the sourcesReport an issue

What this return drives

  • Earnings for February.

What each role should do

MIS or ILR officer

Before

  • Run the standard monthly checks and clear anything outstanding from the mid-year review.

Checks before you submit

  1. Run validation locally before submitting, and work the errors by rule rather than record by record.
  2. Check learners still recorded as in learning whose planned end date has passed.
  3. Check aims that have ended with no outcome recorded.
  4. Reconcile the funding report for the period against your own expectation, and explain any movement since last period.
  5. Confirm withdrawals notified by curriculum this month have actually been recorded.

Sign-off

  • MIS confirms validation is clean or understood.

After submission

  1. Download and keep the funding reports for the period. They are your record of what the submission earned.
  2. Circulate the reconciliation position to Finance, with the explanation for any movement.
  3. Log any issue you could not resolve in time, so it is picked up rather than forgotten next month.

What commonly goes wrong

  • Issues identified at the mid-year review left unactioned.

Each of these has a full diagnostic in the error and assurance lookup, with the causes, the investigation, the fix and the control that prevents it.

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.

Data collection timetable 2026 to 2027 (opens in a new tab)

Department for EducationOfficial technical document2026–27Awaiting first verification

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