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Entry Level Functional Skills: Certificate Release

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TitleEntry Level Functional Skills: Certificate Release
URL NameEntry-Level-Functional-Skills-Certificate-Release
Issue
When are ELFS certificates released and sent to centres?
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Learners must achieve all components to receive full Entry Level Functional Skills certification. Please see Edexcel Online: Reporting Entry Level Functional Skills Achievement for how to make a claim.

Deadline to claim certificates

For this academic year certificates must be claimed before 31 August 2025


Certificates will only be released after external standards verification is complete. If the external verification has not taken place, centre marks for learners will still be accepted, however, learners will not receive certificates until external verification has been completed. After external verification, you'll receive a Standards Verification Report indicating which certificates can be released, please see the table below for details.

Standards Verification Report outcomes explained

External Verification outcome

What this means?

YesThe centre has met the minimum sample requirement for programme release. Direct claim status (DCS) is given and certificates will be released automatically until 31st August.
NoThe centre has consistently not met their action points, or the SV is not happy to release the samples they have seen. Certificates will not be released.
Limited releaseThe centre has not met the minimum sample requirement. Only the learners specified in the Standards Verification Report are released.
N/ANo samples were seen for this qualification and level


Each programme level is verified and released independently, so you may achieve DCS for some levels whilst others only receive Limited Release.

 

Deadline for external verification

External verification for this academic year must take place before 31 July 2025. External verification requests after this date will be considered on case-by-case basis. 

For more information, please see Centre Guide to Quality Assurance.

 

Related Articles:
Edexcel Online: Claiming SLC Achievement Functional Skills English

Edexcel Online: Reporting Entry Level Functional Skills Achievement

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