Provider Support Manual for 2024 to 2025
Published: January 2023,
Summary of changes
Updated: May 2023
From:
Education and Skills Funding Agency
Please note this is a baseline version for 24/25 with the Traineeship section and Destination and Progression removed, further updates will published in version 2.
Section 1 How to use this manual
Section 2 Introduction to the ILR
Section 3 Collecting and submitting data
- Data Management Principles
- How should I collect ILR data?
- How do I send data to the ESFA?
- When do I send data to the ESFA?
Section 4 Completing the ILR: guidance for all provision
- What to include on the ILR
- Learner details: completing the Learner entity
- Recording learner contact details
- Recording learner contact preferences
- Recording learner learning difficulties, disabilities (LLDD) and health problems
- Recording Learner Funding and Monitoring
- Employment status
- Recording learning aims: completing the Learning Delivery entity
- Recording Learning Delivery Funding and Monitoring
- Recording work placements
- Recording Higher Education (HE) data
- Recording Prior Attainment
Section 5 Recording learner changes
- Recording learner changes
- Correcting errors
- Recording changes to a learner's details
- Recording changes to a learner’s programme or learning aim
- Recording breaks in learning, transfers and restarts
- Recording learning outcomes
- How to delete records
Section 6 Recording apprenticeship programmes
- Guidance for recording the apprenticeship programme
- Guidance for recording the apprenticeship learner and delivery fields
- Recording apprenticeship financial data
- How to record changes to the apprenticeship
- Recording apprenticeship outcomes and completion
- Additional guidance for leaving and returning to the Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers
- Guidance for continuing funding model 35 and 81 apprenticeships
Section 7 Recording 16-19 study programmes
- Recording 16-19 study programmes
- Planned hours fields at learner level
- GCSE maths and English condition of funding
- Recording a core aim
- Recording High Needs Students
- Recording work experience
- Recording Industry placements
- Work Placement entity
- Early leavers and transfers
Section 8 Recording T Level and T Level Foundation Year
- Recording T Level programmes on the ILR
- Recording T Level Foundation Years on the ILR
- Learner progression from a T Level Foundation Year to a T Level