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Government invests some £6.7bn a year into education and training through its funding bodies, the Young Persons Learning Agency (YPLA) and the Skills Funding Agency (SFA), educating more 16 to 18 year olds than schools, enrolling more young adults (aged 19 to 30) than universities and helping more than three million people each year achieve personal goals through education and training.

Given this central role in implementing government policies, it is no surprise that the majority of College income comes from Government. Colleges rely on the YPLA / SFA for more than 77% of their income, but reliance ranges from 45% for some land based Colleges to just under 99% for some Sixth-Form Colleges. 

Papers relating to the 2011/12 funding system are contained with in this page and can be found by clicking on the links below.
 

Adult funding

  AoC college funding survey 1, 2010-11 adult learning funding (January 2010)

  BIS Skills Investment Strategy 2010-11

LSC presentation - LSC Funding 2008/09 and 2009/10

  AoC Adult and Employer Responsive LSC Funding Survey Report, April 2009 (revised 13 May 2009)

16-18 funding

  YPLA National Commissioning Framework

   NCF annexes

  AoC college funding survey 2, 2010-11 funding for education of 16-18 year olds (February 2010)

  LSC 16-18 Allocations Briefing Note - 8 June 2009

  AoC 16-18 LSC Funding Survey Report, June 2009

  AoC 16-18 LSC Funding Survey Report, April 2009

LSC allocations data for all funded providers

2009/10:

2005/06 to 2008/09:
Historic allocations data for all LSC funded providers.

AoC presentations on funding

ACER Conference, 23 January 2009:
College policy and funding update, presentation by Julian Gravatt

AoC Annual Conference, 18-20 November 2008:
College Funding: Now and in the Future (Julian Gravatt, AoC)
College Funding: Now and in the Future (Verity Bullough and Geoff Daniels, LSC) 

AoC have produced the following documents which you may find useful:

2009/10 Funding rates

At the 2008 AoC conference, LSC staff confirmed the following changes to funding rates for 2009-10: 

  • 2.1% increase in 16-18 FE rates to £2,920 per Standard Learner Number (SLN)
  • 2.1% increase in 16-18 school sixth form rates to £3,007 (ie no movement here to close the funding gap in 2009-10)
  • 2.1% increase in the 16-18 apprenticeship rates to £2,920
  • 1.5% increase in the 19+ adult responsive rate to £2,817 plus the already announced increase in the fee assumption to 47.5% (implying a 13.1% increase in the fee assumption)
  • 4.5% increase in the Train to Gain rates to £2,987

Updated LSC funding guidance for 2008/09 detailed adult reconciliation can be found here