Guidance

Apprenticeship funding: legal agreement for training providers

Training provider agreement with the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) to pay training providers to carry out apprenticeship training.

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 agreement sets out the terms for use of the apprenticeship service for training providers.

The variation letter sets out the changes made to the agreement as part of the variation published in October 2024.

Training providers that wish to work with employers choosing to access funding through the apprenticeship service will need to sign the agreement through the聽.

Updates to this page

Published 21 March 2017
Last updated 19 November 2024 show all updates
  1. We have added the ESFA apprenticeship provider agreement and the variation letter which sets out the changes made to the agreement as part of the variation published in October 2024.

  2. We have updated the ESFA apprenticeship provider agreement which sets out the changes made to the agreement as part of the variation published in October 2023.

  3. We have updated the ESFA apprenticeship provider agreement and added the variation letter which sets out the changes made to the agreement as part of the variation published in February 2023.

  4. We have updated the ESFA apprenticeship agreement for training providers and published an accompanying schedule of changes.

  5. We have added an updated version of the apprenticeship agreement for training providers.

  6. We have added an updated version of the apprenticeship agreement for training providers.

  7. We have added an updated version of the apprenticeship agreement for training providers.

  8. We have added an updated version of the apprenticeship agreement for training providers.

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