Academic year 2020/21

Apprenticeships and 19-plus Further Education Skills Index

Measures the total value-added of the Further Education system in England over time. Includes provision type breakdown and value-added per learner.

Release type
Published

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If you have a specific enquiry about Apprenticeships and 19-plus Further Education Skills Index statistics and data:

Further education outcomes statistics

Email: FE.OUTCOMESDATA@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Karen Woolgar
Telephone: 0114 2742249

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Official statistics

These are Official Statistics and have been produced in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (opens in new tab).

This can be broadly interpreted to mean that these statistics are:

  • managed impartially and objectively in the public interest
  • meet identified user needs
  • produced according to sound methods
  • well explained and readily accessible

Find out more about the standards we follow to produce these statistics through our Standards for official statistics published by DfE guidance (opens in new tab).

Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR).

OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab) that all producers of official statistics should adhere to.

You are welcome to contact us directly with any comments about how we meet these standards. Alternatively, you can contact OSR by emailing regulation@statistics.gov.uk or via the OSR website (opens in new tab).


Pre-release access list

Besides Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff, the following post holders were given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.

  • Secretary of State for Education
  • Minister of State for Higher and Further Education
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Skills
  • Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the School System
  • Permanent Secretary
  • Special advisers (2 recipients)
  • Director General, Higher Education & Further Education Group
  • Director General, Children’s Services, Communications and Strategy Group
  • Director, Chief Data Officer and Chief Statistician, Data Directorate
  • Deputy Director, Data Insight and Statistics Division
  • Chief media officer
  • Media officer
  • Social media officer
  • Post 16 Skills spending lead
  • Skills reform delivery official
  • Head of apprenticeships parliamentary team
  • Head of apprenticeships quality strategy
  • Apprenticeships quality strategy lead