Please click on the links below for the latest guidance.
- Incentive Payments for Hiring an Apprentice – ESFA guidance and webinar details to support the application on the apprenticeship service
- Post-16 Public Sector Employer Relief Scheme
- Redundancy Support Service for Apprentices (ReSSA) – online and phone service for apprentices
- COVID-19: Apprenticeship Programme Response – DfE’s guidance for apprentices, employers, training providers, EPAOs and EQAOs.
- AEB Funding & Performance Management Rules 2020/21 – version 2
- 16 – 19 Study Programmes Guidance 2020/21
- High Value Courses One Year Offer for 18 and 19-Year-Olds Guidance
- ESFA Procurement Opportunity for 19-24 Traineeships – announcement of new flexibilities and opportunities
- 16-19 Tuition Fund guidance
- Funding information for Sector Based Work Academies – employer guide
- Guidance on Reopening of Educational Settings in September
- Funding support for ILPs delivering 16-19 study programmes – ESFA guidance on support for ILPs whose recruitment of 16-19 students has been limited due to COVID-19
- ESF provider relief scheme details
- Post-16 provider relief scheme details – support available for post-16 training providers with AEB and non-levy apprenticeship contracts
- Guidance on safe working in education settings – DfE’s guidance on safe working in education and childcare settings
- Guidance for FE and skills providers – DfE’s operational guidance for further education providers
- Actions for educational settings to prepare for wider opening from 1 June
- Guidance on safeguarding and remote education
- Qualification Achievement rates and minimum standards – ESFA guidance update related to performance tables and data
- Non levy procured apprenticeships contracts ESFA update
- New apprenticeship service employer agreement – new employer agreement has been postponed until 12 August
- How GCSEs, AS & A levels will be awarded in summer 2020
- Closure of RoATP & suspension of onboarding to RoATP announcement
- Letter to non-college stakeholders – from Gillian Keegan, Minister for Apprenticeships & Skillson on 23 March
- Letter to College leaders – from Gillian Keegan, Minister for Apprenticeships & Skills on 20 March
- Statement on cancelled exams and grading – DfE’s statement giving further details on arrangements for exams which have been cancelled on 20 March
- Maintaining educational provision – DfE’s guidance for schools, childcare providers, colleges and local authorities in England
- Guidance on attendance recording for educational settings – new online form for educational settings to use to submit record of attendance to DfE
- Guidance on vulnerable children and young people – DfE Q&A on provisions being made for vulnerable children & young people
- Open letter to families with SEND – from Vicky Ford MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families
- Latest Ofsted guidance relating to coronavirus
- Closure of education settings: information for parents and carers
- Warning issued regarding increased fraud risk during coronavirus