Stop reconciling funding in spreadsheets. Journey computes every figure against versioned DfE and ESFA rule packs, builds your ILR, checks required fields and funding consistency, and keeps an audit-ready evidence pack behind every number.
Funding-sensitive figures are calculated server-side against versioned DfE rule packs, selected by date. The controls help providers apply the relevant academic-year pack and retain evidence for review; Journey does not determine claim acceptance.
Assemble ILR from the live learner record, check required fields and funding-rule consistency before export, and keep a complete submission history. External XSD/FIS conformance is still completed in the submission process.
An append-only audit log records who did what and when. Generated funding figures retain their supporting evidence pack, helping providers prepare a defensible trail rather than relying on 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. It carries the 2024/25, 2025/26 and published 2026/27 version 3 packs. The 2026/27 pack covers apprenticeship starts from 1 August 2026 to 31 July 2027, alongside the historic packs rather than in place of them.
Journey is independent software built around published funding rules. Its date-based pack selection and checks help providers organise evidence and review their records; they do not certify every funding-rule clause, make a funding decision or guarantee funding or inspection outcomes.
Evidence-linked and accountable 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-sensitive figures use centrally managed packs selected by start date: 2024/25, 2025/26 and published 2026/27 version 3 coverage.
After provider, DPIA and release approval, Advance AI is metered per tenant and prepares authorised drafts and K/S suggestions for human review. It does not make regulated decisions or change the source record.
Tenant isolation, access controls, audit records and governed operations are designed into the platform.
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.