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2021-03-31-accounts

Education and Training Foundation (company number 08540597) Trustees' Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2021

Company Registration Number: 08540597

Charity Registration Number: 1153859

THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOUNDATION

(Company Limited by Guarantee)

Trustees’ Report

and

Financial Statements

For the year ended

31 March 2021

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CONTENTS

Page
1. Trustees and Advisors 3
2. Trustees’ Report 4
3. Statement of responsibilities of the Trustees 20
4. Independent auditor’s report to the ETF 21
5. Consolidated statement of financial activities 25
6. Consolidated and Parent Charity Balance Sheets 26
7. Consolidated statement of cash flows 27
8. Notes to the accounts 28
9. ANNEX 42

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1. Trustees and Advisors

1.1. Trustees

The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) is governed by a Board of Trustees. Those Trustees who served during the year and up to the date on which this report was approved are as follows:


are as follows:
Appointed Re-appointed Resigned
Mr Z Azam 21 July 2017 11 December 2020
Ms S Dicketts CBE 8 December 2016 13 December 2019
Mr J Graham 27 March 2019
Prof P Latchford OBE (Chair) 23 October 2019
Ms L Leith 11 December 2020
Mr A McConnell OBE (Finance
Chair wef 1 January 2022)		 22 July 2019
Mr G McDonald 11 November 2021
Ms R Musson (Audit Chair) 13 December 2019
Ms F Orban 8 June 2016 1 March 2019
Mr M Ord 18 November 2016 1 March 2019
Dr S Parrett CBE 11 November 2021
Mr P Singh 11 December 2020
Ms R Spellman OBE 27 March 2019
Mr D Williams 18 November 2016 1 March 2019 21 May 2020

1.2. Officers

CEO: Mr D Russell (appointed 27 January 2014) Company Secretary: Dr G Hobson (appointed 19 June 2014)

1.3. Registered Office

Education and Training Foundation, 157-197 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9SP

1.4. Auditor

BDO LLP, 55 Baker Street, London W1U 7EU

1.5. Solicitor

Stone King LLP, Boundary House, 91 Charterhouse Street, London EC1M 6HR

1.6. Bankers

Royal Bank of Scotland, 62-63 Threadneedle Street, London EC2R 8LA Barclays Bank, 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP

Should you have any comment regarding our programmes or the content of this report, please do get in touch with our CEO (david.russell@etfoundation.co.uk). You can find more - information about the ETF’s Public Benefit and Impact on the website: https://www.et foundation.co.uk/governance/documents/.

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2. Trustees’ Report

The ETF is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee. It is regulated by the Charity Commission.

The Trustees (who are also the Directors for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006) present their report and consolidated financial statements of the results of the charity and its wholly-owned subsidiary (ETF Services Ltd, company number 09511877) for the year ended 31 March 2021 (“the year”).

This Report incorporates the Strategic Report and the Directors’ Report required under the Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Directors’ Report) Regulations 2013.

The Trustees confirm that they have referred to the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit and adopted the Charity Governance Code (first published in July 2017, updated 2020).

The accounts have been prepared in accordance with the policies set out in note 1 to the financial statements and comply with the ETF’s Articles of Association (‘the Articles’), applicable law and the requirements of the Statement of Recommended Practice and Financial Reporting Standard (FRS 102).

2.1. Purposes and activities

2.1.1. The ETF supports teachers and leaders across the Further Education (FE) sector to help them achieve their professional development goals for the benefit of learners and employers across England. In doing so, we help to transform the lives of individuals and communities across the country, unleashing potential and benefitting the economy.

2.1.2. Our work has three key principles at its heart:

2.1.3. Our support ranges from leadership development through to maths and English enhancement, to Prevent training and digital teaching skills. As well as professional development, we support recruitment into the sector and provide key data and research. We are also the guardian of the sector’s Professional Standards and home to the professional membership body for the sector, the Society for Education and Training (SET), whose 20,000 plus members we support. SET is responsible for the awarding of both Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) status and Advanced Teacher Status (ATS).

2.1.4. Over 2019-20 and 2020-21 the ETF has provided additional and bespoke support to the sector while providers have operated through a global pandemic. This will continue to be a priority as the long-term implications of the pandemic are fully realised.

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2.1.5. Since 2013, the ETF has secured significant public investment in the FE workforce. It has worked in partnership with its Founding Members (the Association of Colleges (AoC) and the Association of Adult Education and Training Organisations (AAETO-HOLEX)) and Member organisations (Natspec; National Union of Students (NUS); the Trades Union Congress (TUC)), and a wide range of bodies and experts to deliver support and development programmes.

2.1.6. An overview of our activity is shown below:

2.2. Overview of our achievements

2.2.1. The ETF believes that the key to improving education and training is to support teachers and their leaders to excel.

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2.2.4. 2020-21 has been a successful year for ETF. The tables below set out an overview of achievements against the objectives and strategic priorities. In addition, throughout this report (and in section 2.8 in particular), detail is provided regarding how the ETF has responded and continues to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic.

2.3. Achievements against our strategic objectives (GLIDE)

Objective Priorities 2020-21 Achievements in 2020-21
GROWthe capacity
of the sector		 1. Set out a career framework model
that then gets sector buy-in
2. Encourage high quality entrants
into the sector
3. Reflect the views of the workforce
in order to take actions that benefit
the whole sector		 1. Career framework model outline
developed and discussed with
Department for Education (DfE) in
support of its ambitions set out in
the White Paper.
2. Programmes including Taking
Teaching Further (TTF), mentoring
provision, and Initial Teacher
Education support assisted in
building workforce capacity.
3. Research initiatives including
membership, practitioner, and
advanced practitioner generating
significant insights which inform our
work with the sector and DfE.
LEADthe sector’s
own development
activities		 1. Enabling the ETF and the sector
to rise to the challenge of corporate
and social responsibility
2. Establish the ETF leadership
institute		 1. Strong delivery in Governance
programmes and chairs events
providing essential support to the
sector at this time.
2. Consultation with the sector
through a steering group to
establish foundations for an
institute.
INFLUENCEthe
system’s priorities,
thinking and
behaviour		 1. Lead the continuous improvement
of Professional Workforce
Development in support of a self-
improving system
2. Work with the sector to identify
effective practice and encourage
engagement		 1. Advanced practitioners
programme reach target exceeded
with positive feedback received,
whilst the Centres for Excellence in
Maths (CfEM) programme has
successfully delivered against
targets this year and has been
extended for the full contract
lifespan. Our new Quality team is
having a positive impact across all
our work with its interventions and
quality dashboards.
2. Practitioner led research target
met, with high quality of delivery
recorded by participants.

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Objective Priorities 2020-21 Achievements in 2020-21
DEVELOPthe
capability of the
sector		 1. Sector sees SET membership as
essential and Professional Status is
undertaken by majority of teachers
2. Striving for Excellence in Sector
Teaching and Learning through CPD
delivery		 1. SET membership ended the year
at over 21k members with a very
positive renewal rate and growth of
around 3%.
2. Strong performance across
range of ETF development
programmes achieving over 100%
of delivery targets including
Outstanding Teaching Learning
and Assessment (OTLA), maths &
English, learning technologies, and
inclusion and wellbeing.
EVOLVEETF to
continually adapt and
thrive		 1. Realise the benefits of our
organisational change

2. Enhancing our reputation as an
Employer of Choice, through culture,
climate and values
3. Demonstrate our impact		 1. Business Development and
Procurement teams have
significantly upgraded their
processes and procedures. Our
change programme delivered
strong outputs in support of
collaborative working and
improvement in the year. Majority
of the work to deliver our IT
transformation project completed.

2. A new HR Learning and
Development system was rolled
out. Forums and focus groups
reviewed ETF as an Employer of
Choice and identified areas to
address in the coming year.
3. A new Research and Evaluation
Manager and a Knowledge
Management Officer embedded in
the business. Evaluation
undertaken across grant
programmes. New Evaluation
strategy and framework signed off
by SMT with Public Benefit and
Impact reportspublished.

2.3.1. In the following sections we outline our operational priorities over 2020-21 and provide some of the highlights.

Workforce Development: Teacher and Trainer Development

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in a range of individual subject areas to review and update some of the resources that are available, for example on Prevent, and maths and English.

Workforce Development: Leaders, Managers, Chairs and Governors’ Support

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Sector Recruitment

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Professional Membership and Status

2.3.2. The above provides a summary view of the various activities and achievements of the ETF during 2020-2021. For further detail regarding our impact and public benefit, please - refer to the corresponding reports available on the ETF website (https://www.et foundation.co.uk/governance/documents/).

2.4. ETF Impact and Public Benefit

2.4.1. In 2020-21, the ETF’s evaluation practice was constrained by the DfE research moratorium (from March to September 2020) after which more than a dozen external evaluations were rapidly commissioned for delivery by 2020-21 year end. As in previous years, these projects relied on the Kirkpatrick framework for assessing the impact of training interventions on individual participants. Project timescales prevented consideration of wider and longer-term impact. Nevertheless, the ETF has committed to publishing the reports and its plans for implementing its recommendations to strengthen programme quality and impact. The ETF is also evolving its evaluation practice to focus more strongly on reporting impact in the future.

2.4.2. In 2020-21, the ETF produced its annual Public Benefit and Impact Reports for 201920. The Public Benefit Report showcases ETF Continuing Professional Development programmes and SET. It highlighted the benefits and sustained positive impact both have brought to supporting leaders, teachers and trainers across the FE sector. The Impact Report goes further, discussing the challenges of capturing impact, presenting independent systematic analysis of two dozen programme evaluation reports, and recommending actions for strengthening impact reporting. It found the ETF’s strategic objectives are delivered through a dual approach to workforce development: the development of skills, knowledge

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and understanding by participating professionals; and community development through engagement with professional networks and collaborative projects. This dynamic dualism has the potential to contribute profound and sustained impact across the sector.

2.4.3. The ETF Impact report for 2019-20 made recommendations for demonstrating impact following the adoption of a new evaluation strategy in 2020-21. Implementation of the strategy began in 2021-22, when commissioned external evaluations included process and impact evaluations of programmes within broad programme areas and adopted theory of change logic models to provide a sharper focus on how programme participation improves professional practice, organisational performance and learner outcomes. Implementation of the strategy in full depends on creating more uniform programme management information, stronger governance for programme participant surveys, the appointment of a single evaluation partner and the introduction of longitudinal evaluation designs spanning more than a single year.

2.5. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

2.5.1. The ETF recognises the vital role the FE sector has to play in combating climate change and achieving sustainability and social justice both nationally and globally. To meet our national and global sustainability goals, both the education and employment landscape will need to respond and there are significant implications and opportunities for the sector workforce.

2.5.2. In October 2020 the ETF recruited its first National Head of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) who has led the development of the ESD strategy, in consultation with various sector stakeholders, to identify how the ETF can add value and enable greater ESD uptake to enhance teaching, learning, assessment and leadership.

2.5.4. This work will contribute to the strategic objectives and form part of considerations within the SHAPE groups. Progress has been made across all four areas:

  1. Solid progress at embedding ESD within the ETF’s leadership, governance, initial teacher education and SET offers;

  2. Submitting funding bids to finance the development of specialist ESD CPD;

  3. The ETF being recognised as an FE thought leader in the ESD space, invited to submit evidence as an expert to the Environmental Audit Committee’s parliamentary scrutiny panel on Green Jobs and sit on numerous relevant sector fora;

  4. Internal sustainability performance will initially be led by the sustainability SHAPE staff forum who submitted a recommended action plan to SMT in June 2021. The first stage of which is to develop monitoring systems to capture and evaluate robust and comprehensive data.

2.5.5. To give the ETF a baseline for monitoring processes, and to inform work with a robust evidence base the ETF is undertaking two pieces of research for publication in July 2021: Experiences of ESD across the FE workforce and an audit of ESD within the current FE curriculum alongside a number of case studies showcasing existing leadership in the field. In

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development is an articulated theory of change for the ETF’s work in this field and longerterm ambitions are to equip the sector to deliver impactful and quality ESD.

2.6. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

2.6.1. The ETF runs a number of programmes aimed at increasing the diversity of the FE sector by challenging bias and reducing barriers to attaining leadership roles for black, Asian, female and other underrepresented groups. The impact of Black Lives Matter, the Me-Too movement (along with the intersectionality of all underrepresented characteristics, as well as neurodiversity) combined with socio-economic inequalities brought about by Covid-19 highlighted the impact these inequalities have on the experience of staff and students in the post-16 sector. These inequalities risk leading to major differences in the educational success of individuals and may ultimately suppress their social and economic mobility. As a result, the ETF has sought to mitigate this risk by working in partnership with sector organisations to implement short- and long-term strategies geared at encouraging and supporting systemic change in the post 16 sector. Change that places equity and inclusion at the fore in balancing these inequalities.

2.6.2. In 2020-21 the ETF has been working with the AoC and other organisations to identify and share progress that practitioners in FE colleges are making in developing and implementing inclusion and diversity strategies within the curriculum and organisational development.

2.6.3. Acting as a thought leader, the ETF is challenging and supporting leaders in FE and training to develop and implement equity and inclusion strategies that impact at governance and CEO level. Equity recognises that each person has different circumstances and allocates the resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome. ETF is also working with partner organisations such as WorldSkills and awarding organisations to amplify the voices of students, practitioners, and leaders.

2.6.4. As an organisation committed to living the values it espouses externally, the ETF is seeking to embed equity, diversity, and inclusion into its DNA through its strategy, SHAPE, its policies, lived practice and in its externally facing programmes. The ETF has engaged Inclusive Employers to support the organisation in developing its internal strategy and action plan. The ETF aims to be an organisation in which diversity is valued for the addition it brings, inclusion is expected, and staff have a strong sense of belonging. Identified steps:

2.7. Organisational development: SHAPE

2.7.1. The Board and Senior Management Team (SMT) consider continuing organisational and professional development to be vital to the ETF’s success. Under SHAPE, the ETF’s organisational development change programme consisting of strategic and cross cutting projects, this development is taking place. It is recognised that with a growing and more regionally based organisation, all employees must continue to share the same values and

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ways of working, sitting alongside the creation and use of common operating systems, policies and procedures.

2.7.2. SHAPE’s purpose is to ensure the organisation operates internally as “One ETF” and is recognised and perceived externally as “One ETF” to achieve its strategic priorities. This is achieved through operating in the most efficient and effective way possible to maximise the impact the ETF has, and ensure the sector recognises the full range of support the ETF offers.

2.7.6. Staff forums will continue to be run across 1) wellbeing and resilience, 2) environmental sustainability and 3) equality, diversity, and inclusion. Expert organisations are engaged to assess strengths and areas for improvement in all three areas and help develop thinking and plans for 2022.

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2.8 The ETF’s response to Covid-19

2.8.1. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and UK Government advice, the ETF’s physical office closed on 19 March 2020. In the run up to the office closure, the ETF’s Business Continuity Plan was enacted and escalated to Incident Response through March and April 2020. From 19 March 2020, all staff worked from home; no ETF staff were furloughed. The CEO and Governance Director held weekly calls with the Chair and Audit Chair throughout the Incident Response period to ensure the Board kept oversight of the charity’s response to the pandemic. In addition, close contact was maintained with the ETF’s funders, DfE, throughout the period and the relationship remains positive.

2.8.2. One of the ETF’s first responses to the UK lockdown was to review and, where possible, move support for the FE and training workforce online. In most cases it was possible to do so (with the main exception being the OSBS delivered leadership programmes). Delivery across 2020-21 considered the priorities and challenges faced by the sector, the impact on the workforce, and how our support could be tailored to meet these new needs. A campaign called #ETFSupportsFE showcasing the support that the ETF provided during this period was launched along with a range of commissioned bespoke webinars.

2.8.3 Following preparations to establish a ‘Covid-secure’ workplace, over the summer of 2020, the ETF office partially reopened based on the following criteria:

2.8.4. Further office closures were necessitated as a result of follow up lockdowns. A Covid19 office risk assessment is published on the ETF website.

2.8.5. Through the period of home working, a package of support was put in place for ETF staff which provided tips, resources and ideas to support wellbeing and mental health, including:

2.8.6. The ETF has built into its strategic priorities actions to support the sector with postCovid recovery activities, including new materials to support delivery which reflect the challenges being faced by the sector and wider society (e.g. Levelling Up).

2.9. Financial review

2.9.1 The ETF’s total income from its charitable activities in the year was £37.6m (2019-20: £29.8m) and £0.3m from trading activities (2019-20: £0.2m), total £37.9m (2019-20: £29.9m). Income included:

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2.9.3 This resulted in an unrestricted surplus for the year of £5.6m. This is stated after provision for payback to DfE of the excess surplus made under the TLPD contract. The majority of this surplus will be reinvested in delivery activities for this contract and more generally for furtherance of ETF’s charitable objectives to support the improvement of teaching and learning in the FE sector.

2.10. Reserves policy and going concern

2.10.1 Restricted reserves at the end of the year were £0.2m (2019-20: £0.4m). This represents grant funding that the ETF has received in advance of delivery costs being incurred.

2.10.2 Unrestricted reserves carried forward at the end of the year were £12.7m (2019-20: £7.1m). Unrestricted reserves are available for use in support of the ETF’s charitable purposes.

2.10.3 With some Government income moving from grant to contract and payment in arrears, the unrestricted reserves required to cover fluctuations in working capital is estimated at £1.2m (2019-20: £0.6m). A further £2.5m is earmarked for an orderly wind down of the ETF, should that be necessary at any stage. The remainder will be used in future financial years in connection with the expanding delivery of the TLPD contract and more generally to further ETF’s charitable purposes of improving the quality of teaching and learning in the FE sector. This includes investment in ETF’s own digital and IT resources.

2.10.4 The level of reserves carried forward and existing contract and grant agreements mean the ETF can continue as a going concern and meet its liabilities as they fall due.

2.11 Investment policy

2.11.1 The ETF holds its funds with AAA-rated banks. Most are held in immediate access accounts. In July 2020, the Board approved and introduced a new Treasury and Investment Policy, which outlines the level of reserves to be held by the ETF and the investment allowed, both in terms of liquidity and business development. The Board will continue to keep its investment policy under review to maximise the investment return consistent with the concern to ensure the security of its resources and minimise risk.

2.12 Grant making

2.12.1 Under the DfE’s TTF scheme, the ETF makes grants to providers to help fund innovative projects to attract individuals into the sector and foster collaboration and secondment with industry. All grant awards are approved by the DfE and are subject to rigorous checks to ensure money is being used in accordance with the UK Charity Commission’s rule on public benefit.

2.13 Other reporting requirements

2.13.1 Under Section 172 of the Companies Act 2006, the ETF’s Trustees, as Directors of the company, have a duty to promote the long term success of the charity. They have done that during 2020-21 by considering the impact of the decisions they make on the future of

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the ETF. They have taken into account the views of different stakeholders when making these decisions. The Board considers that it has acted in the best interests of the charity and its beneficiaries.

2.13.3 The Board engages with and builds its understanding of the respective needs of these stakeholder groups through a number of different means, including:

2.13.4 During 2020-21 the Board has made a number of significant decisions which have impacted on the charity’s stakeholders, including:

2.13.5 Additional information regarding Section 172 reporting requirements can be found in the following sections:

2.13.6 The Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) legislation was implemented on 1 April 2019. The new regulations apply to large unquoted companies, including charitable companies. The regulations require companies to disclose their energy and carbon emissions in their annual reports. For the first time in the year to 31 March 2021, ETF is defined as a “large” organisation, with turnover exceeding £36m and Balance Sheet total (Total Fixed Assets and total Current Assets) exceeding £18m.

2.13.7 However, in the first financial year that an unquoted company meets the qualifying size conditions it is exempt from the SECR disclosures and ETF has taken advantage of this exemption. Initial data indicates that our energy usage for the year to 31 March 2021 was around 46,000 kWh. Further information on ETF’s approach to sustainability can be found in section 2.5.

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2.13.8 Section 162A of the Charities Act 2011 requires charities to make certain statements in their annual report in relation to their fundraising activities. The charity did not undertake any fundraising activities for the purposes of that section in the financial year and, accordingly, the Trustees confirm that:

2.14 Plans for 2021-22

2.14.1. In 2021-22, the ETF will further consolidate changes introduced over the last few years to organisational design and the operating model. In 2020-21, several new teams were created to support a split in organisational functions and operating a role culture with the separation of (i) planning and doing and (ii) designing and managing.

2.14.2. Aligned to this change and due to the implementation of a large new contract (TLPD), a significant change to headcount occurred in 2020-21. In 2021-22 and beyond further work will be completed to embed business change and enhance ways of working of a larger and more complex structure.

2.14.3. The advantage of this target operating model enables agility and response on curriculum design and development, meeting DfE and sector needs though the team of National Heads and managing and driving performance improvement through the delivery team. In addition, it allows the Board and the Executive to continue to prioritise and be responsive to sector need in the post-Covid environment.

2.14.4. Through 2020-21 and into 2021-22 the Board and Executive focus on strategic planning and its 3-year strategy (giving due consideration to the long term impact of Covid19 for the ETF, the sector and wider society) applied across four lenses:

  1. Considering ETF‘s overall mission and vision to ‘help support the sector to become a self-improving system’;

  2. Applying GLIDE organisational objectives to help deliver the strategy;

  3. Underpinning the GLIDE objectives with 12 strategic priorities; and

  4. Using the SHAPE programme to enable cross-organisational change programmes.

2.15 Governance

2.15.1. At the ETF AGM (1 March 2019) new Articles and a supporting ‘Members – roles and responsibilities’ schedule were adopted. Following the Articles changes, the following actions were completed:

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2.15.2. Through 2020-21 these governance changes were embedded across the business. We also moved to online meeting arrangements as a result of Covid-19. The Board focused on becoming a ‘high performing board’ and to improve its diversity, which continues to be a priority.

2.16 Trustee induction and training

2.16.1 New trustees meet with the Chair, CEO, Deputy CEO, Company Secretary, SLT and other members of the SMT as part of the induction. Trustees are briefed on trustee responsibilities, the Articles, the ETF’s strategy and business plans, its financial performance, and key risks. On appointment and each year trustees are asked to adopt a Code of Conduct, and trustees’ interests are reviewed at every Board and Committee meeting.

2.16.2. All trustees are offered the opportunity to observe and/or attend ETF events, as well as attend external training on various topics linked to trustee responsibilities. Board members attend an annual away day to consider the ETF’s operating environment, strategic priorities and opportunities. The most recent away day was held online on 11 December 2020, with the next session planned on 9 December 2021.

2.17 Risk management

2.17.1. The Board has reviewed and agreed an updated risk management policy and procedure that comprises:

2.17.2. At the end of 2020-21, the Board considered the most significant risks to delivery of the ETF’s charitable aims. These are outlined below, with the key mitigations and actions:

Risk Mitigations and Actions
Macro environment and funding •
Ongoing Grant and contract discussions
•
Responding to the White Paper and feeding into the
Spending Review to ensure ETF stays relevant
Digital systems are not fit for purpose •
Implementation of the digital transformation programme,
Transform
•
Re-structure of IT and Digital team
DfE Commercial approach •
Ongoing DfE relationship strategy management, including
open dialogue between DfE Commercial and ETF
•
Development of commercial strategy
Demonstrating and communicating
impact		 •
Development of Evaluation Strategy, with task and finish
group established to embed the strategy
•
Development of comms plan

2.17.3. The Board kept a close review of ETF’s responses to the above risks, along with risks linked to Covid-19.

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2.18 Pay policy

2.18.1. The Board considers the key management personnel of the charity to be the members of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), comprising; CEO, DCEO, Director of Finance, Director of Operations, Director of Business Strategy and the Director of Professionalism and Customer Experience (appointed June 2021). The SLT is in charge of directing and controlling, running and operating the charity on a day-to-day basis.

2.18.2. The Board has agreed a pay policy. The pay of staff is reviewed annually by the Board’s Remuneration and Search Committee taking into account variables including: performance of the organisation; climate in the education and training, public and voluntary sectors; affordability for the ETF; attracting and retaining excellent staff; cost of living indices; and sector benchmarks. The Board’s Remuneration and Search Committee makes recommendations to the Board which is responsible for final decisions. In 2021-22 a review of the ETF’s pay, benefits, reward and recognition policies will be completed.

2.19. Disclosure of Information to the Auditors

2.19.1. The Trustees who held office at the date of approval of this Trustees’ Report confirm that, so far as they are each aware, there is no relevant audit information of which the ETF’s auditors are unaware; and each Trustee has taken all the steps that he/she ought to have taken as a trustee to make himself/herself aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the ETF’s auditors are aware of that information.

The Report of the Trustees, which incorporates the requirements of the Strategic Report and the Directors’ Report as set out in the Companies Act 2006 (Strategic Report and Directors’ Report) Regulations 2013, was approved by the Board, in their capacity as Trustees and company directors, and signed on its behalf on 16 December 2021 by:

Prof Peter Latchford OBE Chair 16 December 2021

David Russell

Chief Executive Officer

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3. Statement of Responsibilities of the Trustees

The trustees are responsible for preparing the Strategic Report, Trustees’ Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Charity law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the Trustees must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the group and charity and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the group and charity for that period.

In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

The Trustees are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the charity’s transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

Financial statements are published on the charity’s website in accordance with legislation in the United Kingdom governing the preparation and dissemination of financial statements, which may vary from legislation in other jurisdictions. The maintenance and integrity of the charity’s website is the responsibility of the trustees. The trustees’ responsibility also extends to the ongoing integrity of the financial statements contained therein.

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4. Independent auditor’s report to the Members of The Education and Training Foundation

Opinion on the financial statements

In our opinion, the financial statements:

We have audited the financial statements of the Education and Training Foundation (“the Parent Charitable Company”) and its subsidiary (“the Group”) for the year ended 31 March 2021 which comprise the Consolidated statement of financial activities, the Consolidated and Charity balance sheets, the Consolidated cash flow statement and notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Independence

We remain independent of the Group and the Parent Charitable Company in accordance with the ethical requirements relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements.

Conclusions related to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the Trustees’ (Who are the Directors) use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Group and the Parent Charitable Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the Trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

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Other information

The Trustees are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Annual Report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. The other information comprises the Trustees’ report which incorporates the Strategic report, and the Trustees’ responsibility statements. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon. Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

Other Companies Act 2006 reporting

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

In the light of the knowledge and understanding of the Group and the Parent Charitable Company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Trustees' report or Strategic report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

Responsibilities of Trustees

As explained more fully in the Trustees’ Responsibilities statement, the Trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they

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give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the Trustees determines is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the Trustees are responsible for assessing the Group’s and the Parent Charitable Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Trustees either intend to liquidate the Group or the Parent Charitable Company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

We have been appointed as auditor under the Companies Act 2006 and report in accordance with the Act and relevant regulations made or having effect thereunder.

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Extent to which the audit was capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of non-compliance with laws and regulations. We design procedures in line with our responsibilities, outlined above, to detect material misstatements in respect of irregularities, including fraud. The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

Our audit procedures were designed to respond to risks of material misstatement in the financial statements, recognising that the risk of not detecting a material misstatement due to

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fraud is higher than the risk of not detecting one resulting from error, as fraud may involve deliberate concealment by, for example, forgery, misrepresentations or through collusion. There are inherent limitations in the audit procedures performed and the further removed non-compliance with laws and regulations is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely we are to become aware of it.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements is located at the Financial Reporting Council’s (“FRC’s”) website at:

https://www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the Charitable Company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Charitable Company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Charitable Company and the Charitable Company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

James Aston (Senior Statutory Auditor) For and on behalf of BDO LLP, statutory auditor

55 Baker Street London, UK

Date: 17 December 2021

BDO LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales (with registered number OC305127).

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5. Consolidated statement of financial activities

2020-21 2019-20
**Note ** Unrestricted Restricted Total Unrestricted Restricted Total
Income: £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000
Income from charitable activities:
Grant Income 4 - 20,637 20,637 - 22,865 22,865
Professional Development 15,253 - 15,253 5,346 - 5,346
Accreditation 787 - 787 760 - 760
Membership 936 - 936 803 - 803
16,976 20,637 37,613 6,909 22,865 29,774
Income from trading activities:
Property Rental 295 - 295 106 - 106
Other 48 - 48 33 - 33
Investment Income 5 4 - 4 33 - 33
Total Income 17,323 20,637 37,960 7,081 22,865 29,946
Expenditure:
Expenditure on charitable
activities:		 6 (11,720) (20,876) (32,596) (4,420) (23,534) (27,954)
Total Expenditure (11,720) (20,876) (32,596) (4,420) (23,534) (27,954)
Net income and movement in
funds for the year 5,603 (239) 5,364 2,661 (669) 1,992
Reconciliation of funds
Total funds brought forward 7,130 424 7,554 4,469 1,093 5,562
Total funds carried forward 12,733 185 12,918 7,130 424 7,554

The statement of financial activities includes all gains and losses recognised in the year. All income and expenditure derive from continuing activities.

The notes on pages 28 to 41 form part of these financial statements.

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6. Consolidated and Parent Charity Balance Sheets

Group
2021
Note
£000
Fixed assets
Intangible assets
12
542
Tangible assets
12
93
635
Investment in subsidiary
13
-
635
Current assets
Debtors
14
1,285
Cash at bank and in hand
24,162
25,447
Liabilities
Creditors: amounts falling due within one year
15
(13,164)
Total assets less current liabilities
12,918
Net assets
12,918
Unrestricted income funds
18
12,733
Restricted income funds
19
185
Total funds
12,918		 Charity
2021
£000
542
93
635
1
636
1,481
24,103
25,584
(13,302)
12,918
12,918
12,733
185
12,918		 Group
2020
£000
-
-

-
-

-

997
12,788
13,785
(6,231)
7,554
7,554
7,130
424
7,554		 Charity
2020
£000
-
-
-
1
1
1,083
12,643
13,726
(6,173)
7,554
7,554
7,130
424
7,554

The Statement of Financial Activity for the charity alone has not been presented, as permitted by s408 of the Companies Act 2006. During the year ended 31 March 2021, the charity results showed a surplus of £5,364k (2019-20 surplus of £1,992k). The financial results of the charity are summarised in note 3.

The notes on pages 28 to 41 form part of these financial statements.

These financial statements were approved by the trustees on 16 December 2021 and were signed on their behalf by:

Prof Peter Latchford OBE Chair

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7. Consolidated statement of cash flows

Note
Cash provided by operating activities
22
Cash flows from investing activities
Interest income
Increase in cash and cash equivalents in the year
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year
Total cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year		 Group
Group
2020-21
2019-20
£000
£000
11,370
1,912
4
33
11,374
1,945
12,788
10,843
24,162
12,788

The notes on pages 28 to 41 form part of these financial statements.

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8. Notes to the accounts

1. Accounting policies

The principal accounting policies adopted, judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows:

a) Basis of preparation

The financial statements have been prepared on the basis of historical cost in accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (FRS102), Accounting and Reporting by Charities: Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with FRS102 (Charities SORP (FRS102)), the Charities Act 2011 and the Companies Act 2006.

b) Going concern

The accounts have been prepared on a going concern basis. The ETF will be able to meet its obligations in full for at least 12 months following the signing of these accounts. The Board has reviewed and approved the budget for 2021-22 including the reserves that will be available to support trading after that period. The Board has also recently reviewed the out-turn forecast position for 2022.

The Board has considered the longer-term position of the ETF and its financial strength. The trustees were satisfied that the ETF is in a strong position and were satisfied with the preparation of the accounts on a going concern basis.

In conjunction with this, considering Covid-19 and the continual potential operational and financial impact on the ETF the Board also considered a reverse stress test, aimed at defining the strength of the ETF from a liquidity perspective. As such, the Board was satisfied of the ETF’s strong financial position and that the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis.

c) Group financial statements

The financial statements consolidate the results of the charity and its wholly-owned subsidiary, ETF Services Ltd (ETFS), on a line-by-line basis. A separate Statement of Financial Activities and income and expenditure Account for the charity has not been prepared because the ETF has taken advantage of the exemption afforded by section 408 of the Companies Act 2006. The ETF is also fully supportive of ETFS and will not seek to request any payment of debt from the subsidiary in the eventuality of it making a loss.

d) Income

Income is recognised when the ETF has entitlement to the funds, any performance conditions have been met and it is probable that the income will be received.

Income from Government and other grants is recognised when the ETF has unconditional entitlement to the funds. Income is deferred and recognised as a liability when grants are received in advance of the period in which the donor has specified that the expenditure is to take place. Where specific instructions are received from the grant maker relating to the use of the funds for specific purpose, the amounts are accounted for within restricted income.

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8. Notes to the accounts (continued)

1. Accounting policies (continued)

d) Income (continued)

Income from membership subscriptions is recognised evenly over the period of membership. Income from registration onto accreditation schemes is recognised on receipt; income from submission of accreditation workbooks is recognised after evaluation has been completed.

Income from professional development is recognised on an accruals basis. Income from rental and investment activities is recognised on an accruals basis.

e) Expenditure and liabilities

Expenditure is recognised once there is a legal or constructive obligation to make a payment to a third party, it is probable that settlement will be required and the amount of the obligation can be measured reliably.

Direct costs include all costs relating directly to delivering charitable activities. Staff costs include staff delivering charitable services (allocated directly) and those providing backoffice services (apportioned based on the costs directly allocated to each activity). Support costs include accommodation, depreciation, IT, stationery, general office expenses and governance. These are also apportioned in line with direct cost allocation.

Irrecoverable VAT is charged as a cost against the activity for which the expenditure was incurred.

f) Fund accounting

Grants or donations received for specific projects are treated as restricted funds.

Designated funds are available for specific identified purposes by the ETF.

Unrestricted funds are available for general use by the ETF or to meet possible shortfalls in revenue or unforeseen increases in expenditure, investment in business development initiatives and generally for the furtherance of the charitable objective to support the improvement of teaching and learning in the FE sector.

g) Taxation

The charity meets the requirements as set out in Paragraph 1 Schedule 6 of the Finance Act 2012 as a charitable company for UK corporation tax purposes. As such it is potentially exempt from income tax in respect of income or capital gains received within categories covered by Chapter 3 Part 11 of the corporation tax Act 2010 or Section 256 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992, to the extent that such income or gains are applied exclusively for charitable purposes.

The wholly-owned subsidiary, ETF Services Ltd, pays all of its profits to the charity under the gift aid scheme.

No tax charge has arisen in the year.

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8. Notes to the accounts (continued)

1. Accounting policies (continued)

h) Fixed assets and depreciation

Individual fixed assets or groups of assets costing in excess of £5,000 are capitalised at cost and depreciated over their estimated useful life on a straight-line basis as follows:

A full year’s depreciation is charged in the year an asset is commissioned, irrespective of the precise date during the year.

i) Operating leases

Rental income and costs arising under operating leases are charged to the income and expenditure account on a straight-line basis over the period of the lease.

j) Financial instruments

The ETF only has financial assets and liabilities which qualify as basic financial instruments, initially recognised at transaction value and subsequently measured at their settlement value.

k) Pensions

The ETF operates three pension schemes: staff transferred under TUPE regulations from LSIS are entitled to belong to an Aviva defined-contribution scheme; staff who joined before October 2017 were offered ETF’s defined-contribution scheme operated by Standard Life; and new employees join ETF’s auto-enrolment defined-contribution scheme operated by Aviva.

ETF contributes 6% of the employee’s pensionable salary into the Aviva/LSIS scheme. For 2020-21, employer’s contributions of £13,899 (2019-20: £13,772) were paid to Aviva. ETF contributes 6% of the employee’s pensionable salary into the Standard Life scheme. For 2020-21, employer’s contributions of £45,318 (2019-20: £74,746) were paid to Standard Life.

ETF contributes 6% of the employee’s pensionable salary into the Aviva auto-enrolment scheme. For 2020-21, employer’s contributions of £302,923 (2019-20: £125,340) were paid to Aviva.

Arrangements exist which, under certain circumstances, allow staff to sacrifice some of their remuneration in exchange for an equivalent increase in employer’s pension contribution.

l) Staff termination costs

Statutory redundancy and ex-gratia payments being made to staff are recognised in the accounts when the decision about staff leaving has been made, it is likely that such payments will be required and the amount to be paid can be reliably assessed.

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8. Notes to the accounts (continued)

2. Legal status of the ETF

The ETF is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity. It has no share capital. In the event of being wound up, the liability in respect of the guarantee is limited to £1,000 per member of the charity.

3. Financial performance of the charity

The consolidated statement of financial activities includes the results of the charity’s whollyowned subsidiary, ETF Services Ltd (company number 09511877), which operates SET. The results for the charity alone are shown below:

Income:
Income from charitable activities:
Government grant
Non-Government grant
Government contract
Professional Development
Accreditation
Administration services to subsidiary
Donation from subsidiary
Other income
Property rental income
Seconded staff
Investment income
Total Income
Expenditure:
Expenditure on charitable activities
Total expenditure
Net income and movement in
funds for the year
Reconciliation of funds:
Total funds brought forward
Total funds carried forward		 2020-21
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
£000
£000
£000
-
20,537
20,537
-
100
100
14,685
-
14,685
568
-
568
787
-
787
24
-
24
196
-
196
48
-
48
16,308
20,637
36,945
295
-
295
-
-
-
4
-
4
16,607
20,637
37,244
11,004
20,876
31,880
11,004
20,876
31,880
5,603
(239)
5,364
7,130
424
7,554
12,733
185
12,918		 2019-20
Unrestricted
Restricted
Total
£000
£000
£000
-
22,794
22,794
-
71
71
4,439
-
4,439
907
-
907
760
-
760
24
-
24
7
-
7
14
-
14
6,151
22,865
29,016
106
-
106
-
-
-
33
-
33
6,290
22,865
29,155
3,628
23,534
27,162
3,628
23,534
27,162
2,661
(669)
1,992
4,469
1,093
5,562
7,130
424
7,554

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8. Notes to the accounts (continued)

4. Government Grants and Contracts

The ETF received a Government grant of £20.5m in 2020-21 (2019-20: £22.8m) from the Department for Education. Included within Creditors is a sum of £465k of unspent grants to be repaid to DfE. The ETF also received grants of £50k from the Royal Commission for Technical Teaching Fellowships and £50k from the Gatsby Foundation for Further Forces.

All conditions and contingencies attaching to grants receivable have been met. Analysis of movements in grants and other restricted funds received is given in note 19.

In the year to 31 March 2021 ETF received income from three Government contracts, the most significant of which was for TLPD. The total of £14.7m shown includes £13.0m from the TLPD contract, stated after making a provision of £1.5m for payback of surplus generated from this contract to the DfE. See also Note 23 regarding contingent liability.

5. Investment income

All the group’s investment income of £4,130 (2019-20 £33,329) arises from money held in interest bearing deposit accounts.

6. Analysis of expenditure on charitable activities

Professional development
Sector development
Research and data
Membership and accreditation		 Direct cost
& grants
Direct staff
cost
Indirect staff
cost
Overhead
cost
2020-21
Total cost
£000
£000
£000
£000
£000
11,946
3,060
1,417
986
17,409
10,598
1,493
1,141
613
13,845
67
9
7
47
130
508
604
-
100
1,212
23,119
5,166
2,565
1,746
32,596		 2019-20
Total cost
£000
10,269
15,419
500
1,766
27,954

7. Grants Awarded

Grants of £4.6m have been awarded to various providers as part of the Government’s TTF Scheme (2019-20: £2.8m) and grants of £1.4m have been awarded under the Mentoring scheme (2019-20: nil).

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8. Notes to the accounts (continued)

8. Net income for the year

This is stated after charging:

Operating leases - property
Governance costs:
External Auditor's remuneration
- Audit fees
- Other advice
Internal Auditor's remuneration
Legal and Professional
Trustees remuneration & expenses
Depreciation		 2020-21
2019-20
£000
£000
547
289
54
36
6
5
10
10
15
28
29
41
114
120
28
-

9. Staff

The average number of staff, including senior post holders, employed across the ETF Group during the year ended 31 March, expressed as full-time equivalents (FTEs):

Total number of FTEs
Total number of heads		 2020-21
2019-20
132
69
141
75

Staff costs included within expenditure on charitable activities are:

Salaries and wages
Social Security costs
Pension costs
Termination payments		 2020-21
2019-20
£000
£000
6,455
3,542
682
405
362
214
78
12
7,577
4,173

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8. Notes to the accounts (continued)

9. Staff (continued)

The number of employees whose emoluments fell within the following bands was:

2020-21 2019-20
£60,000 - £69,999 13 6
£70,000 - £79,999 1 1
£80,000 - £89,999 1 1
£90,000 - £99,999 2 -
£120,000 - £129,999 - 1
£130,000 - £139,999 1 -
£140,000 - £149,999 - 1
£170,000 - £179,999 1 -

The ETF organisation structure includes a Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and an Operational Senior Management Team (SMT). The Board considers the CEO, DCEO, Director of Finance, Director of Operations, Director of Business Strategy and the Director of Professionalism and Customer Experience (appointed to SLT June 2021) to comprise the key management personnel. For 2020-21 this is for 5 FTE and in the prior year 2019-20 this comprised 4.4 FTE.

The total cost of employing the key management personnel and the highest paid employee was as follows:

Salaries and wages
Social Security costs
Pension costs		 2020-21
2019-20
£
£
580,268
487,600
74,006
61,930
32,336
43,281
686,610
592,811
Key management personnel		 2020-21
2019-20
£
£
177,970
148,756
23,346
19,338
8,202
24,608
209,518
192,702
Highest paid individual

It should be noted that the salary shown above for 2020-21 for the highest paid individual includes residual bonus payments, relating to earlier years. No bonuses have been awarded in respect of the financial year 2020-21 and there is no longer a bonus element to the remuneration package.

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8. Notes to the accounts (continued)

10. Trustees’ remuneration and expenses

S R Freer
P Mullins
R Musson
P Latchford
Reimbursement of trustees' expenses		 2020-21
2019-20
£
£
-

6,720

-
13,446

8,000
6,052
20,400
16,872

181
9,265
28,581
52,355

The Articles of Association, as agreed with the Charity Commission, permit remuneration of up to three independent trustees who manage significant and complex activities on behalf of ETF, requiring significant amounts of time. The Chair (P Latchford) and the Chair of the A&R Committee (R Musson) are contracted and remunerated. No pension contributions are made on their behalf.

No other trustee received any remuneration or received any other benefit from the ETF. Travel, accommodation, and subsistence expenses were reimbursed to 1 trustee during the year (2019-20: 10 trustees).

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8. Notes to the accounts (continued)

11. Related party transactions

AoC, AAETO-HOLEX, NUS, Natspec and TUC were the Members of the ETF throughout 2020-21 and are considered to be related parties by virtue of their rights, under the Articles of Association, to be consulted about the appointment of Board members.

In addition, a number of trustees and executive directors were employed by or held unremunerated positions in a variety of organisations, which are also considered to be related parties. The Board considers this to be appropriate and requires that trustees comply with its conflicts of interest policy.

The ETF has entered into arms-length contractual arrangements with the following organisations which fall within the definition of related parties under FRS102.

Other than direct services to the Board (e.g. Audit), the Board has no involvement in any of the ETF’s processes for assessing tenders. Similarly, no potentially conflicted trustees take part in supplier performance reviews when the supplier is a related party.

Activate Learning
Association of Employment and Learning Providers
Association of Adult Education and Training Organisations
Association of Colleges (AoC)
Association of Colleges (AoC)
AoC Regional Office - East Midlands (EMFEC)
AoC Create Limited
Candour Collaborations Ltd
Pearson's
Learning & Work Institute
NatSpec
University of Derby
Wakefield College Corporation
Women's Leadership Network		 2020-21
spend
£000
51
42
35
1,055
-
285
442
NA
293
47
30
NA
73
50
2,403		 2019-20
spend
£000
77
226
11
2,633
-
1,596
315
97
907
190
18
2
85
28
6,185		 2020-21
balance
due (to)/from
£000
-
(21)
-
(290)
10
-
(289)
-
(194)
(24)
-
-
(61)
(10)
(879)		 2019-20
balance
due (to)/from
£000
-
-
-
(305)
-
-
(169)
-
-
(108)
(8)
-
-
-
(590)

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8. Notes to the accounts (continued)

12. Fixed assets – group and charity

Cost
Opening Balance 1 April 2020
Additions
Disposals
Closing Balance 31 March 2021
Depreciation
Opening Balance 1 April 2020
Charge in year
Closing Balance 31 March 2021
Net Book Value 31 March 2021
Net book Value 31 March 2020		 Computer
Software
Intangible
£000
87
542
-
629
87
-
87
542
-		 Computer
Hardware
Tangible
£000
83
121
-
204
83
28
111
93
-		 Total
£000
170
663
-
833
170
28
198
635
-

13. Investments – charity

The charity holds the entire allotted share capital of £1,000 in its wholly-owned subsidiary, ETF Services Ltd, which is incorporated in the United Kingdom. The shares are called-up and fully-paid. The activities and results of this company are summarised in note 21. A copy of the directors’ report and financial statements of ETF Services Ltd can be obtained from the Company Secretary at 157-197 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9SP.

14. Debtors

Trade debtors
Prepayments
Accrued income
Amounts owing from subsidiary company
Accrued donation by subsidiary company
Other debtors		 Group
2021
£000
721
65
498
-
-
1
1,285		 Charity
2021
£000
721
65
498
-
196
1
1,481		 Group
2020
£000
466
64
430
-
-
37
997		 Charity
2020
£000
466
64
430
79
7
37
1,083

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8. Notes to the accounts (continued)

15. Creditors: amounts falling due within one year

Trade creditors
Grants payable
Accruals
Deferred income
Taxation and social security
Amounts owing to subsidiary company
Provision for TLPD contract payback to DfE
Other creditors		 Group
2021
£000
7,600
-
1,770
1,650
321
-
1,500
323
13,164		 Charity
2021
£000
7,600
-
1,768
1,561
321
229
1,500
323
13,302		 Group
2020
£000
3,831
507
1,001
601
206
-
-
85
6,231		 Charity
2020
£000
3,831
507
992
552
206
-
-
85
6,173

16. Deferred Income

Deferred income comprises the SET membership fees in respect of 2021-22 invoiced before 31 March 2021, workbook submission fees received for QTLS accreditation applications which had not been assessed by year-end and course attendance fees invoiced which relate to courses which were due to take place on or after 1 April 2021. Deferred income also includes grant income received within the year to 31 March 2021, the conditions for which are not satisfied through delivery until 2021-22

Balance at 1 April
Amount deferred in year
Balance at 31 March
Amount released to income earned from charitable activities		 Group
2021
£000
601
(601)
1,650
1,650		 Charity
2021
£000
552
(552)
1,561
1,561

Total Deferred income in the Charity comprises of Government grants £769k (includes £465k payback re Management fee overclaimed), non-Government grants £40k, Professional Development £452k and maths & English (TLPD) £300k. The Group figure includes SET membership fees in advance of £89k.

17. Analysis of Group net assets in funds

Cash in bank and in hand
Other net assets (liabilities)		 Unrestricted
£000
23,977
(11,244)
12,733		 Restricted
Total
£000
£000
185
24,162
-
(11,244)
185
12,918

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8. Notes to the accounts (continued)

18. Analysis of movements in unrestricted funds

2020-21
Society for Education and Training
Designated funds, of which:
- Wind-down of ETF
- Strategic investment reserve
General fund
2019-20
Society for Education and Training
Designated funds, of which:
- Wind-down of ETF
- Strategic investment reserve
General fund		 Funds at
start of year
£000
20
-
2,550
1,200
3,360
7,130
19
2,550
1,300
600
4,469		 Incoming
resources
£000
936
-
-
16,387
17,323
822
-
-
6,259
7,081		 Resources
expended
£000
(731)
-
-
(10,989)
(11,720)
(839)
-
(100)
(3,481)
(4,420)		 Transfers
£000
7
-
-
(7)
-
18
-
-
(18)
-		 Funds at
end of year
£000
232
2,550
1,200
8,751
12,733
20
-
2,550
1,200
3,360
7,130

19. Analysis of movements in restricted funds

2020-21
DfE grant
SET for Success
Further Forces
TVET
2019-20
DfE grant
Home Office grant
SET for Success (previously shown as BIS)
Gatsby Foundation
Royal Fellowship		 Funds at
Incoming
Resources
Funds at
start of year
resources
expended
end of year
£000
£000
£000
£000
207
20,537
(20,675)
69
217
-
(101)
116
-
50
(50)
-
-
50
(50)
-
424
20,637
(20,876)
185
876
22,700
(23,369)
207
-
94
(94)
-
217
-
-
217
-
45
(45)
-
-
26
(26)
-
1,093
22,865
(23,534)
424

Of the total 2020-21 DfE grant received it has been agreed that a sum of £465k will be refunded to the DfE. The total of £20,537k shown above is net of this sum. Unspent grant of £69k, due to timing of delivery, will be spent in 2021-22.

The balance of £116k of the Grant for SET for Success has been carried forward.

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8. Notes to the accounts (continued)

20. Lease commitments

ETF and the charity had the following lease commitments as at 31 March 2021:

Operating lease - property rental
Payments due within one year
Payments in 2-5 years
Operating lease - sub-rental income
Payments due within one year
Payments in 2-5 years		 2020-21
£000
509
1,105
1,614
(88)
-
(88)		 2019-20
£000
547
1,279
1,826
(199)
(66)
(265)

21. Subsidiary company

ETFS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the charity, which operates SET. The retained profit of the subsidiary alone is:

Turnover
Membership subscriptions
Other Income
Cost of sales and administration cost
Excess of income over expenditure
Gift aid donation to parent charity
Retained Profit/(Loss)
The assets and liabilities of the subsidiary are:
Current assets
Current liabilities
Aggregate share capital and reserves		 2020-21
£000
936
-
936
(740)
196
(196)
-
59
(58)
1
1		 2019-20
£000
803
19
822
(815)
7
(7)
-
145
(144)
1
1

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8. Notes to the accounts (continued)

22. Reconciliation of net movement in funds to net cash flow from operating activities

Net movement in funds
Add back depreciation charge
Deduct interest received
(Increase)/Decrease in debtors
Increase/(Decrease) in creditors
Payments made to acquire Fixed Assets
Net cash provided by operating activities		 Group
2020-21
£000
5,364
28
(4)
(288)
6,933
(663)
11,370		 Group
2019-20
£000
1,992
-
(33)
826
(873)
-
1,912

23. Contingent Liability

The ETF is in on-going discussions with the DfE regarding the extent of the surplus generated under the TLPD contract during the year to 31 March 2021. The ETF’s position on this is that there is a fair sum which could and should reasonably be repaid to the DfE. This figure of £1,500k is included within current liabilities. It is a complicated contract and the DfE position is that there is a potential maximum sum payable of up to £4,800k for the year to 31 March 2021. As such there is currently a degree of uncertainty regarding the level of any further payments which may be settled relating to the year to 31 March 2021, up to a maximum liability of £3,300k.

Furthermore, the DfE position regarding the pricing of the TLPD contract potentially has implications for the prior year to 31 March 2020, with a maximum further liability of £2.7m, should a similar methodology be applied by DfE to the early months of the contract.

24. Post balance-sheet events

In July 2021, ETF signed a Transfer Agreement with ETFS transferring ETFS trade and assets to ETF.

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9. ANNEX 1:

Acronyms
AAETO-HOLEX Association of Adult Education and
Training Organisations
ARPCE Association for Research in Post
Compulsory Education
ATS Advanced Teacher Status
AoC Association of Colleges
AELP Association of Employment and
Learning Providers
BERA British Education Research
Association
BAME Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
CCT Chartered College of Teaching
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CFO Chief Finance Officer
CPD Continued Professional Development
CMS Content Management System
CRM Customer Relationship Management
DCEO Deputy Chief Executive
DET Diploma in Education and Training
DfE Department for Education
DTPF Digital Teaching Professional
Framework
EEF Education Endowment Foundation
ESFA Education and Skills Funding Agency
ETF The Education and Training
Foundation
ETFS ETF Services Ltd
ESOL English to Speakers of Other
Languages
FD Finance Director
FTE Full Time Equivalent
FE Further Education and Training
GAAP Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles
HR Human Resources
ITE Initial Teacher Education
ITT Initial Teacher Training
KIT Keep In Touch
KPI Key Performance Indicator
LSIS Learning and Skills Improvement
Service
LSRN Learning and Skills Research Network
OSBS Oxford Said Business School
OTLA Outstanding Teaching Learning and
Assessment
PCSPS Principle Civil Service Pension
Scheme
QTLS Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills
SLT Senior Leadership Team

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SMT Senior Management Team
SET Society for Education and Training
SEND Special Educational Needs and
Disabilities

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