Stop reconciling funding in spreadsheets. Journey computes every figure against versioned DfE and ESFA rule packs, builds and validates your ILR, and keeps an audit-ready evidence pack behind every number.
Every funding figure is calculated server-side against versioned DfE / ESFA rule packs, selected by date. You always claim against the correct academic year — never a stale or hand-edited number.
Assemble ILR from the live learner record, validate against the funding rules before submission, and keep a complete history of what was submitted and when.
An append-only audit log records who did what and when, and every funding figure carries an evidence pack — so an ESFA funding audit or Ofsted inspection finds a defensible trail, not a spreadsheet.
Journey covers the funding and ILR workflow end to end, so the numbers you claim and the evidence behind them never drift apart.
Last reviewed: June 2026
When funding is reconciled in spreadsheets, the figure you claim and the evidence behind it live in different places — and they drift. Journey computes every funding-sensitive figure server-side from the live learner record, so the number on a director's dashboard, the figure in the ILR and the evidence pack behind it all come from one source. The client can request a state transition but never supplies the resulting figure.
Off-the-job hours, key dates and decisions are captured as part of delivery and feed directly into funding compliance, with an append-only audit log recording who did what and when. The result is that a funding audit or Ofsted inspection finds a defensible trail rather than a spreadsheet cell with no working behind it.
Journey holds the apprenticeship funding rules as packs versioned by academic year, selected by each apprentice's start date through a single source of truth. As of June 2026 it carries the 2024/25 and 2025/26 packs and is built to adopt the 2026/27 pack — now published by the DWP (which took on the apprenticeship funding rules on 1 April 2026) and applying to apprenticeships starting from 1 August 2026 — added alongside the existing years so historic learners keep being calculated correctly.
Journey is independent software built around the published funding rules; it is not government or Ofsted approved and does not guarantee funding or inspection outcomes.
Funding-safe and audit-ready by design
Every record is scoped to your organisation on each read and write — one provider can never see another's data.
Every state change is recorded against the real person who made it, so the history stands up at audit.
Funding is computed server-side against the right year for each start date — 2024/25 and 2025/26, and built to adopt the 2026/27 pack now published by the DWP.
AI is metered per tenant, prompts are scrubbed of learner PII and outputs are validated, falling back gracefully.
Built and operated by a UK company to externally-audited information-security standards.
No lock-in: export your data whenever you like, and your employer relationships always remain yours.
Journey is independent software and is not DfE or Ofsted approved. It does not guarantee funding or inspection outcomes.