Latest update from the ESFA including: 1. Information: 2017 to 2018 year-end reconciliation statements; 2. Information: qualification achievement rates (QAR) – dashboard decommissioning and new reports; 3. Information: apprenticeships funding band review; 4. Information: traineeship in-year growth business case window 2018 to 2019 – 16 to 18 mainstream budget; 5. Information: 2017 to 2018 R13 reconciliation statements for independent learning providers (ILPs); 6. Information: high needs place change notification process and technical note 2019 to 2020; 7. Information: publication of the 2017 to 2018 high needs student numbers recorded in the ILR and school census dataset; 8. Information: hospital education funding – guidance on local authority applications for changes in 2019 to 2020 and changes to hospital education template; 9. Information: free school meals pupils should remain eligible until at least 2023.
