Academic year 2021/22

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, DfE
  • Minister for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education
  • Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School System)
  • Special advisers (x3)
  • Permanent Secretary, DfE
  • Director General for Skills
  • Director General for Children’s Services, Communications and Strategy Group
  • Director of Apprenticeships
  • Director of Post-16 Skills and Strategy
  • Head of Data Insight and Statistics and Deputy Statistician
  • Chief Media officer
  • Media officer
  • Head of Skills Strategy and Stakeholder Unit
  • Head of Skills Delivery 
  • Post 16 Skills Spending lead
  • Head of Apprenticeships Parliamentary team
  • Head of Apprenticeships Quality Strategy
  • Apprenticeships Programme Management Office Senior Manager