On Thursday evening the Skills Funding Agency launched the new funding rules for 2012/13.
The new funding rules are available here.
See also the letter from Vince Cable to Geoff Russell confirming the SFA’s core priorities
Following a consultation on the revised rules which were published in April the SFA has for the first time sets out the funding rules for a single year. The rules are applicable for the 2012-13 funding year.
The new document replaces the following rules that were issued for 2011/12:
- Adult Skills Budget Funding Requirements,
- Apprenticeship Funding Requirements,
- Learner Eligibility and Contribution Rules,
- Adult ESF Delivery Requirements,
- Adult ESF Funding Requirements,
- Adult ESF Contract Deliverables and Evidence Requirements,
- ESF Subcontracting Requirements,
- Apprenticeship and Adult Skills Budget Funding Requirements for Employers,
- Discretionary Funding Guidance and Requirements,
- Requirements for Funding Family Learning Programmes.
It also replaces Requirements for Funding –
- Formal First Step Learning 2010-11,
- Adult Safeguarded Learning,
- Formal First Step and Family Learning Impact – Requirements for Funding 2010/11.
The 2012-13 rules also incorporate for the first time, “principles of evidence” and an outline of “evidence requirements” in each section.
