Funding guidance for young people: 2021 to 2022 &  2
        2022 to 2023
        Format is similar to previous years. It consists of 4 separate books:
        •   ‘Funding regulations’ (published March 2022 for 2022 to 2023)
        •   ‘Funding rates and formula’ (published March 2022 for 2022 to 2023)
        •   ‘ILR funding returns’ (published July 2021 for 2021 to 2022) – this does not 
            apply to schools or academies
        •   Subcontracting funding rules for ESFA funded post-16 funding (excluding 
            apprenticeships)
        All these documents are available at: 
        www.gov.uk/16-to-19-education-funding-guidance
    Regulations – What’s new                           3
    What’s new for 2022 to 2023
    • New advice on additional hours.
    • Planned hours for study programmes
       a. Funding principles on when planned hours require adjustment 
       b. Recording planned hours where changes are required through the 
         funding year
       c. Recording planned hours where changes are required within first six 
         weeks (in previous years some of this advice was in the Rates book)
    • Condition of funding detailed advice is now in Section 7 (moved from 2021 to 
     2022 Regulations annex D). 
        Additional hours and impact on ‘Planned hours for  4
        2022 to 2023’ Slide 1 of 3
        Purpose:
        •   additional hours have been introduced to aid education recovery. This, 
            alongside other education recovery programmes will help ensure gaps in 
            learning caused by disruption to education can be filled.
        •   in the long-term, we aim to permanently embed additional hours in 16 to19 
            education, resulting in an increase in the amount of teaching and learning 
            students receive and improving outcomes. We intend to review options for 
            doing this over a longer period, including considering further changes to 
            funding band hours and exploring whether there are particular areas of 
            teaching and learning that should be prioritised in order to improve 
            outcomes. 
   Additional hours and impact on ‘Planned hours for  5
   2022 to 2023’ Slide 2 of 3
   Important points:
    we have increased funding band hours for academic year 2022 to 2023 to 
     account for the additional hours and these bands will be enforced by 
     recovery of funding where hours are not increased, resulting in students 
     falling into lower funding bands
    in academic year 2022 to 2023, we expect all institutions to deliver on 
     average 40 more hours on band 5 programmes than in academic year 
     2020 to 2021. We recognise there will be some variation with differences in 
     cohorts and courses, but we will analyse where the data and end of year 
     reports suggest that teaching hours have not significantly increased
   Additional hours and impact on ‘Planned hours for  6
   2022 to 2023’ Slide 3 of 3
   Institutions should:
    use additional hours flexibly, broadly in line with study programme 
     guidance, to best meet the needs of students
    prioritise maths in the use of additional hours where there is an identified 
     student need
    use additional hours to support areas such as mental health, wellbeing or 
     study skills where these are a barrier for students effectively accessing 
     teaching and learning
   More information on the additional hours is on GOV.UK. The additional hours 
   form part of every student’s planned hours.