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Scenario

Tailored learning recorded under the wrong allocation

Non-formula-funded adult provision has been recorded alongside formula-funded delivery. Two allocations, one set of records.

Funding year2026–27Awaiting verificationSee the sourcesReport an issue

The situation

Provision
Adult community-style provision, non-regulated
Recorded
Under the formula-funded adult funding model
Effect
The tailored learning allocation shows almost no delivery

Constructed for teaching. No scenario in the Academy contains real learner data, and none ever will.

What has gone wrong?

The rules behind this

Official requirement

Tailored learning is funded and recorded separately from formula-funded Adult Skills Fund provision, under its own funding model, and must not be blended with it.

Official requirement

The funding model recorded against a learning delivery determines which funding rules, which calculation and which reports apply to it.

Official requirement

Adult Skills Fund delivery is earned through the ILR against an allocation, and is reconciled: earning less than the allocation can reduce the funding retained, and earning more does not automatically increase 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.

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

GOV.UKOfficial funding document2026–27Awaiting first verification

Adult Skills Fund funding rates and formula 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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