Important

The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025

ESFA functions have now moved to the Department for Education (DfE).

User roles and permissions

These are the user roles available in the Manage your education and skills funding service.


This allows you to:

  • view contracts and agreements
  • sign contracts and agreements
  • raise queries against individual contracts
  • automatically receive email alerts

This allows you to:

  • view funding claims and reconciliation statements
  • sign funding claims
  • automatically receive email alerts

This allows you to:

  • view subcontractor declarations history
  • submit subcontractor declarations
  • automatically receive email alerts

This allows you to:

  • view allocation statements
  • automatically receive email alerts

This allows you to:

  • view contracts and agreements
  • raise queries against individual contracts
  • automatically receive email alerts

This allows you to:

  • view funding claims and reconciliation statements
  • automatically receive email alerts

This allows you to:

  • view payment history

This allows you to:

  • view subcontractor declarations history

Requesting roles

To access these roles, you will need to have an account with DfE Sign-in.