Funding streams
Start from the money
The streams do not differ only in rate. They differ in mechanism, and that is what catches people out: one is lagged, one is reconciled, one is a set of individual employer agreements. Each page explains how its stream is earned and what puts it at risk.
16 to 19 study programmes
National formula funding for students aged 16 to 18 on 31 August, and for students aged 19 to 24 with an Education, Health and Care plan, delivered as a study programme or a T Level.
5 modules7 diagnosticsILR funding model 25
Open the streamAdult Skills Fund
Formula funding for regulated learning aimed at adults aged 19 and over, covering entitlements, co-funded and fully funded provision, earned through the ILR and reconciled against an allocation.
5 modules8 diagnosticsILR funding model 35, 38
Open the streamTailored learning
Non-formula-funded adult provision, previously community learning and non-regulated learning, recorded under its own ILR funding model and reconciled against a separate allocation.
0 modules4 diagnosticsILR funding model 11
Open the streamApprenticeships
Employer-led training funded through negotiated prices within funding bands, drawn from the levy or co-investment, and earned monthly through the ILR alongside the apprenticeship service.
3 modules7 diagnosticsILR funding model 36
Open the streamSkills Bootcamps
Short, employer-linked adult training funded against delivery and outcome milestones rather than a formula, recorded under its own ILR funding model.
0 modules2 diagnosticsILR funding model 37
Open the streamDevolved adult funding
Adult skills funding devolved to combined and strategic authorities, where a learner's home postcode determines which authority's rules, rates and reporting apply.
2 modules3 diagnosticsILR funding model 35, 38
Open the streamHigh needs
Additional funding for students with significant special educational needs or disabilities, built from place funding and local-authority top-up alongside the core programme funding.
0 modules0 diagnosticsILR funding model 25
Open the streamLearning support
Funding claimed for the additional support a learner needs to take part in and complete their programme, with the need, the provision, the cost and the evidence all required to line up.
1 modules1 diagnosticsILR funding model 25, 35, 36, 38
Open the streamCross-cutting
Subjects that apply across every funding stream, including the ILR itself, returns, data quality, evidence, audit and performance measures.
18 modules4 diagnostics
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