Funding audit checks. Evidence for your team to review.
Review funding-rule checks, DfE Audit Working Papers and learner-level evidence in one audit workflow. Investigate the findings and organise the follow-up with your funding team.
Connect the finding, the working paper and the follow-up
Use the audit view to organise the checks and evidence your team needs to review. Automated findings support investigation; your team remains responsible for interpreting the evidence and deciding the next action.
Funding-rule checks
Review the learner-level findings and the rules behind them.
Working papers
Bring the relevant DfE Audit Working Papers into the evidence review.
Follow-up
Investigate the finding and record the evidence needed for the next review.
Automated checks with reviewable evidence.
Bring learner-level checks, working papers and documentation into your audit review. Investigate findings with their evidence and rule references before deciding the next action.
Audit against funding rules
Review learner-level checks against apprenticeship funding rules. Findings categorised into Over-claimed, Under-claimed, Ineligible activity, Missing evidence with severity and rule reference.
Audit against DfE Audit Working Papers
Automated working-paper checks bring findings and evidence together for your team’s review. Review the checks and coverage relevant to the selected audit run.
Reviews data AND documentation
Not just ILR data. The platform inspects supporting documentation: training plan signatures, commitment statements, eligibility evidence, OTJH records. Findings reference the document, not just the field.
Scheduled audit review
Use scheduled audit runs to support regular evidence review. Check the run’s scope and date, then investigate the findings alongside your wider assurance work.
Per-learner risk scoring
Review learner audit scores and risk bands to prioritise the findings needing investigation.
Audit credits and streams
Scope an audit run by Standard, cohort or funding type. Credit-based usage with a transaction ledger so finance teams can attribute audit cost to programme.
Compliance and earnings, alongside the audit.
The Audit Centre also includes PDSAT for ongoing compliance validation and FIS for per-learner earnings projection. All three sub-modules share the same data and link to each other on the per-learner detail.
PDSAT compliance dashboard
Data validation against DfE compliance rules. Pass / Fail / Warning per learner, risk distribution, 11 issue categories from data quality through to gateway and completion.
FIS earnings projections
Per-learner monthly earnings forecast across funding models (FM36 / 35 / 38 / 37). Covers on-programme, completion, balancing, incentives and learning support.
PDSAT linked to FIS
PDSAT risk score sits next to earnings forecast on the FIS learner detail. A learner forecasting low earnings with a Critical PDSAT flag is one click from investigation.
Related capabilities
Delivery Management: the full deep-dive.
20-page PDF covering the Audit Centre add-on alongside trackers, Quality Reviews, Sampling, IQA and Training.
Download the deep-diveExplore funding audit checks and the evidence behind them.
Choose a 30-minute introduction or a full 90-minute demo of the audit workflow in a demonstration environment. You’ll see findings categorised, working papers tracked, and the evidence trail in one place.
Book Your DemoFrequently asked questions
- What are the DfE Audit Working Papers?
- The Audit Working Papers set out the tests the Department for Education and its auditors apply when checking that funded delivery complies with the funding rules. They define what evidence must exist per learner and what constitutes a valid claim, which is why they are the right basis for an internal audit rather than a generic checklist.
- What is PDSAT?
- PDSAT (Provider Data Self-Assessment Toolkit) is the DfE toolkit providers use to interrogate their own ILR data for anomalies and potential funding errors before submission or audit. It highlights patterns that commonly indicate compliance risk.
- What is FIS?
- FIS (Funding Information System) is the DfE tool that calculates expected earnings from submitted ILR data. Comparing FIS projections against your own expectations is how funding discrepancies are usually detected.
- Does the audit check documentation as well as data?
- Yes. The Audit Centre reviews both the per-learner data and the supporting documentation, because most funding findings arise from evidence that is missing or inconsistent rather than from figures that are arithmetically wrong.
- Does this replace an external funding audit?
- No. It gives you continuous internal assurance so that issues are found and corrected long before an external audit, rather than replacing your statutory audit obligations.