Funding Year Values: UK Skills Funding Agency Contract Allocations

Skills Funding Agency contract values for Colleges, training organisations, local authorities, and employers in receipt of funding for a given year. The data originates from Individualised Learner Records (ILRs) submitted to the Agency to monitor performance and calculate final funded positions. The dataset is published by the Skills Funding Agency under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Analyze funding distribution across different types of training providers based on the described recipient categories.
• Monitor provider performance against contracts based on the described use of ILR data for performance management.
• Model final funding claims and allocations for a funding year based on the described process.

Strengths

• Data is sourced directly from the UK government's Skills Funding Agency.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse.
• Last updated date is precisely specified as 2026-07-08 13:33:28.422955.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and data scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is in the future (2026).

Provenance

Source

Skills Funding Agency

Collection Method

Aggregated from Individualised Learner Records (ILRs) submitted by funded providers.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:28.422955.

Geography

United Kingdom