Guidance

Adult education budget (AEB): funding rates and formula 2023 to 2024

Details of the 2023 to 2024 funding system for the AEB and 16 to 18 traineeships

From:
Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
Published
31 May 2023
Last updated
20 September 2023 鈥� See all updates

Applies to England

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Details

The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025. All activity has moved to the Department for Education (DfE). You should continue to follow this guidance.

This document sets out how we will fund activity for ESFA funded AEB and continuing 16 to 18 traineeships. In this version, we have described:聽聽

  • how we fund learning through the new AEB procurement that has taken place聽
  • how we are integrating traineeship provision into the AEB for new learning starting from 1 August 2023
  • a change to the procured and non-procured version of the 鈥淣ational Skills Fund鈥� funding line types to 鈥淣SF Free Courses for Jobs鈥� funding line types聽

This guide covers delivery starting in the 2023 to 2024 funding year. We may publish further updates through the course of the year and we will tell you about any changes in ESFA Update.聽

If you have any queries after reading our guidance鈥�, marking your query for the attention of the 19+ Calculations group.

Updates to this page

Published 31 May 2023
Last updated 20 September 2023 show all updates

  1. We have updated the ESFA Funded Adult Education Budget Funding Rates and Formula 2023 to 2024.

  2. First published.

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