The latest information from the ESFA: 1. Action: qualification achievement rates (QARs) 2020 to 2021; 2. Action: new subcontracting declaration window open, first collection for 2021 to 2022 including nil returns – deadline 30 September 2021; 3. Action: ‘My apprenticeship’ accounts launching 9 September; 4. Reminder: updates to the apprenticeship service; 5. Reminder: less than 3 weeks to submit your further education (FE) workforce staff and vacancy data returns; 6. Information: FE workforce governor data collection for FE and sixth-form colleges; 7. Information: adult education budget (AEB) reconciliation business case process for ESFA grant funded providers for 2020 to 2021 academic year; 8. Information: additional guidance published on interim measures for managing the subcontracting market now that ROTO has formally closed; 9. Information: traineeship in-year growth for 2021 to 2022; 10. Information: new funding reports guidance; 11. Information: new webinar on what’s involved in an assurance review (audit); 12. Your feedback: workshops to discuss financial and governance processes for independent training providers (ITPs); 13. Your feedback: recording attendance – research participants needed.
