Further education and skills
Apprenticeship and adult 19+ Further Education and skills learning, including community learning, education and training, and basic skills (English and maths).
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These accredited official statistics have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (opens in new tab) (OSR). They comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab). Accredited official statistics are called National Statistics in the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (opens in new tab).
Accreditation signifies their compliance with the authority's Code of Practice for Statistics (opens in new tab) which broadly means 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
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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
In the 24 November update to this release (Further education and skills: November 2022), beside 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 for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School System and Student Finance)
- Special Advisers (2 recipients)
- Permanent Secretary
- Deputy Permanent Secretary
- Director General, Skills
- Director, Professional and Technical Education
- Deputy Director for Apprentices, NEETs, and Traineeships
- Director, Strategic Analysis, Research, Data, Intelligence & Science
- Director of Apprenticeships (ESFA)
- Deputy Director, Skills Policy Analysis
- Deputy Director, Data Insight and Statistics Division
- Deputy Director, Student Finance Policy
- Programme Deputy Director, Apprenticeships (ESFA)
- Acting Head of Digital Engagement and Creative Content
- Social Media Officer (Senior Content Producer)
- Chief Media Officer
- Senior Press Officer
- Head of Apprenticeships Parliamentary Team
- Apprenticeship Parliamentary Team Officer
- Forecasting and policy costing analyst
- Funding Policy Manager
- Team Leader – Free Courses for Jobs
- Briefing Support/Officials – Traineeships
- Briefing support - Public sector
- Policy Adviser, Labour Market Skills and Funding
- Student funding policy lead - advanced learner loans
- Policy Adviser, Post-16 Basic Skills Team, Community learning
- Briefing Support/Officials– Post-16 Basic Digital Skills
- Lead for 16-19 English and Maths
- Policy Adviser, Apprenticeships Strategy & Funding
- Head of Apprenticeship Quality Strategy
- Head of Apprenticeship Funding Policy
In the 21 July update to this release (Further Education and skills: July 2022), beside 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 (DfE)
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Skills, Further and Higher Education)
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School System)
- Special Adviser
- Permanent Secretary (DfE)
- Deputy Permanent Secretary (DfE)
- Director General, Higher and Further Education (DfE)
- Chief Operating Officer, Director Operations Group
- Director of Apprenticeships (ESFA)
- Director, Data Directorate
- Director, Professional and Technical Education (ESFA)
- Deputy Director, Skills Policy Analysis (DfE)
- Deputy Director, Data Insight and Statistics Division (DfE)
- Deputy Director for Apprentices, NEETs, and Traineeships
- Programme Deputy Director, Apprenticeships (ESFA)
- Head of digital engagement and creative content
- Social Media Officer (Senior Content Producer)
- Chief Media Officer
- Senior Press Officer
- Briefing Support/Officials – Traineeships
- Head of Apprenticeships Parliamentary Team
- Apprenticeship Parliamentary Team Officer
- Policy Adviser, Post-16 Basic Skills Team, Community learning
- Policy Adviser, Post-16 Basic Skills Team, English and maths
- Apprenticeships Funding Analyst
- Funding Policy Manager
- Briefing Support/Officials– Post-16 Basic Digital Skills
- Policy Adviser, FE Funding, Careers and Further Education
- Policy Adviser, Level 3 Free Courses for Job
In the 9 March update of this release (Further education and skills: March 2022), beside 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 (DfE)
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Skills)
- Minister of State (Minister for Higher and Further Education)
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School System)
- Special Adviser (2 recipients)
- Permanent Secretary (DfE)
- Deputy Permanent Secretary (DfE)
- Director General, Higher and Further Education (DfE)
- Chief Operating Officer, Director Operations Group
- Director of Apprenticeships
- Director, Data Directorate
- Director, Professional and Technical Education, ESFA
- Deputy Director, Skills Policy Analysis (DfE)
- Deputy Director, Data Insight and Statistics Division (DfE)
- Deputy Director for Apprentices, NEETs, and Traineeships
- Programme Deputy Director, Apprenticeships
- Head of digital engagement and creative content
- Social Media Officer (Senior Content Producer)
- Media Officers (2 recipients)
- Briefing Support/Officials – Traineeships
- Head of Apprenticeships Parliamentary Team
- Apprenticeship Parliamentary Team Officer
- Policy Adviser, Post-16 Basic Skills Team, Community learning
- SEO Post 16 English and Maths
- Apprenticeships funding analyst
- Funding Policy Manager
- Briefing Support/Officials– Post-16 Basic Digital Skills
- Policy Adviser, Labour Market Skills and Funding
- Policy Adviser, Level 3 Free Courses for Jobs
- Head of Policy, FE Quality and Governance
- Policy Adviser, FE Quality and Accountability
- Policy Adviser, Apprenticeship Quality Policy
- Deputy Director – Apprenticeship Quality
- Quality Strategy Lead, Apprenticeships directorate
- Head of apprenticeship quality strategy
In the original version of this release published on 27 January 2022, beside Department for Education (DfE) professional and production staff the following post holders are given pre-release access up to 24 hours before release.
- Secretary of State for Education (DfE)
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Skills)
- Minister of State (Minister for Higher and Further Education)
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School System)
- Special Adviser (2 recipients)
- Permanent Secretary (DfE)
- Deputy Permanent Secretary (DfE)
- Director General, Higher and Further Education (DfE)
- Chief Operating Officer, Director Operations Group
- Director of Apprenticeships
- Director, Data Directorate
- Director, Professional and Technical Education, ESFA
- Deputy Director, Skills Policy Analysis (DfE)
- Deputy Director, Data Insight and Statistics Division (DfE)
- Deputy Director for Apprentices, NEETs, and Traineeships
- Programme Deputy Director, Apprenticeships
- Head of digital engagement and creative content
- Social Media Officer (Senior Content Producer)
- Chief Media Officer
- Media Officer (DfE)
- Briefing Support/Officials – Traineeships
- Head of Apprenticeships Parliamentary Team
- Apprenticeship Parliamentary Team Officer
- Policy Adviser, Post-16 Basic Skills Team, Community learning
- Policy Adviser, Post-16 Basic Skills Team, English and maths
- Apprenticeships funding analyst
- Funding Policy Manager
- Briefing Support/Officials– Post-16 Basic Digital Skills
- Policy Adviser, FE Funding, Careers and Further Education
- Policy Adviser, Level 3 Free Courses for Jobs