Finance and funding News and actions including items in EFA Academies e-bulletin 90 – 18th June 2015 1.
Action and information for academies/schools All academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs can claim funding to pay for their national non-domestic rates (NNDR).
Headteachers, Finance staff
Secondary Principals and Finance Staff
If you haven’t yet claimed for financial year 2015 to 2016, you should complete the online form available via the academies funding claims page on GOV.UK. Information
New academies that have opened since April 2014 can use the same form to claim for the 2014 to 2015 financial year.
Information
The deadline has now passed for returning approved submissions for the summer school census. If you have not yet submitted your data, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible. You must provide an explanation in the ‘return-level’ notepad entry for any unresolved queries. You can find information about notepad entries for COLLECT queries on GOV.UK. Please make sure you press the 'submit' button in COLLECT when you have finished so we can view your returns. The Department for Education expects all post-16 education and training providers funded by EFA to supply information by the end of September 2015, about the courses they plan to offer to 16- to 19-yearolds in 2016 to 2017. Post-16 providers can now submit course information in one of 3 ways: 1. EFA-funded providers who have DfE Secure Access accounts can access the database by selecting the ‘post-16 portal’ option. 2. SFA or EFA-funded providers who don't have a Secure Access account can submit course information direct to the National Careers Service Course Directory provider portal. 3. Providers can nominate a third party organisation to input course data on their behalf. More information can be found in the help guide. Please note that if you already have a provider portal account to upload post-19 course information (for example, if you offer both EFA and SFAfunded programmes), you should continue to access and upload post16 data using the same account. Further details can be found on the provider portal.