Updated: Updated to include further examples of good practice.
This document provides practical examples of institutions using the 16 to 19 Bursary Fund guide to create their own innovative schemes to help students who most need financial support to participate in further education or training.
The 16 to 19 Bursary Fund guide re-emphasises the importance of ensuring available funds are targeted at those students experiencing the greatest financial disadvantages, that the amounts allocated are sufficient to enable these students to participate in education, and that the availability of funding is communicated effectively to prospective and actual students before, during and after the enrolments process.
This good practice guide is aimed at schools, colleges, academies, training institutions, independent institutions and local authorities (collectively referred to as institutions in this guide) to help them to administer the fund in the 2013 to 2014 academic year.
The two appendixes, also available from this page, are examples of good practice in place at institutions, which were judged by auditors to be successfully administering the Bursary Fund.