ESFA Update: 9 October

Latest from ESFA including: 1. Action: Submit your 16 to 19 tuition fund end of year spend for 2023 to 2024 by Friday 11 October 2024. 2. Action: Submit your earnings adjustment statement by Thursday 17 October. 3. Action: 2025 to 2026 high needs place change process....

Youth Offer Process Evaluation

The Department for Work and Pensions’(DWP) ‘Youth Offer’ aims to mitigate the unemployment impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on 16 to 24 year-old Universal Credit customers in the Intensive Work Search conditionality regime. This report presents findings from the...

Kickstart Scheme: A Quantitative Impact Assessment

Kickstart was aimed at 16 to 24 year olds on Universal Credit (UC) at risk of long-term unemployment. Kickstart was launched during the first COVID-19 lockdown. Kickstart was designed to mitigate the long-term effects of unemployment by providing 25 hours a week of...

Apprenticeships: October 2024

This publication updates the apprenticeships statistics to include the latest monthly data on apprenticeship starts, reported to date. This provisional data now covers August 2023 to June 2024. Key data includes: Apprenticeship starts were up by 1.1% to 278,590...