Education and Skills Funding Agency
Education and Skills Funding Agency
07/13/2026 | News release | Archived content
Mainstream funding calculations rule-base for adult skills
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 these rules.
The mainstream funding calculations rule-base for adult skills guides on this page are for years 2019 to 2020 and 2025 to 2026.
This guidance is aimed at software suppliers and people developing internal software.
The funding calculations have been created using Oracle Policy Modelling () technology. builds business rules in the form of a rule base which is then deployed using the Oracle Policy Automation () engine.
This guidance contains the rule base source documents for the mainstream adult skills calculation used by the Funding Information Service () and Submit Learner Data ().
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