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Submit your Residential Support Scheme data return

Submit your Residential Support Scheme data returns

Important

The Digital Forms Service will be unavailable due to planned maintenance from Friday 3 October to Monday 6 October.

We expect the service to be available again on Tuesday 7 October.

This will not affect submission deadlines. Institutions will not be disadvantaged by being unable to submit during this time.

Use this form to report how you used your Residential Support Scheme (RSS) allocation provided by Department for Education (DfE) in academic year (AY) 2024 to 2025.

The academic year (AY) was from 1 September 2024 to 31 August 2025.

Institutions administering RSS funding are required to complete and submit an annual return to provide data on expenditure against allocation and to confirm the number of students supported. This requirement forms part of ESFA contractual terms and conditions for RSS.

This data return will be analysed and used to reconcile RSS funding. We will recover any unspent funds as they cannot be carried forward to future years.

You must complete and submit your form by 5pm on Friday, 24 October 2025.

You can edit and resubmit your return until this date.

Before you start

This service is for further education and sixth-form colleges designated to deliver specialist provision.

To complete your return, you will need to know:

  • total RSS you have spent
  • total number of students you have supported with RSS
  • reasons for any over or under spend
Your return must be authorised by the Head of Institution (HOI).

View the Residential Support Scheme guidance (opens in new tab) for more information.

Sign in with DfE Sign-in

You need to have an account with the DfE Sign-in service to access the form. If you have not used DfE Sign-in before you will need to create a DfE Sign-in account (opens in new tab) and link this to your organisational setting.

If you have questions

Contact us through the Customer Help Portal (opens in new tab)

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