Question: What are the guidelines for Further Education Providers (FE) in regards to audits, accountability, and regulation?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Maintaining education and skills training provision: further education providers
section_headers: Regulation, accountability and audit
Qualification achievement rates
section_content: As part of steps taken to fight the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), the
government announced that all exams due to take place in schools and colleges
in England in summer 2020 are cancelled, and that it will not publish any
school or college level educational performance data based on tests,
assessments or exams for 2020.
The Department for Education will not hold schools/colleges to account on the
basis of exams and assessment data from summer 2020 and data will not be used
by others, such as Ofsted and local authorities, to hold schools/colleges to
account. Further information can be found at Coronavirus (COVID-19): school
and college performance
measures.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Has general information about how exams will be handled during the pandemic, but doesn't specifically address further education.
No answer for the request to provide the guidelines the FE providers adhere to.

Reviewer ratings:
Bad
Bad

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Maintaining education and skills training provision: further education providers
section_headers: Regulation, accountability and audit
Audit
section_content: Prior to the Prime Minister’s announcement of the new coronavirus (COVID-19)
restrictions on Monday 23 March 2020, we made the decision to pause the start
of any new routine funding audits for all post-16 providers for the short
term, as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. We have now extended
this pause to cover the period for, at least, the duration of the lockdown.
Where funding audits and investigations were already in progress, we have
sought to complete the work, taking into account providers’ capacity to
resolve any issues. We understand the challenges providers face as a result of
the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and have been sensitive to these
challenges when contacting providers.
It may be necessary for the ESFA to contact providers during the coronavirus
(COVID-19) outbreak in order to continue to maintain effective oversight and
protection of public funds. Where such contact is necessary, we will continue
to be sensitive to the challenges providers face as a result of coronavirus
(COVID-19).
We will continue to monitor and review the situation in the light of the
circumstances. When the coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions are reduced and
there is a return to office-based working across the country, we will assess
when it is appropriate to restart routine funding audits.
*[ESFA]: Education Skills Funding Agency

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Has a clear general description of how education audits will be affected by the pandemic.
The answer touches on the main requests of the question but still falls a bit short in substance and detail.

Reviewer ratings:
Acceptable
Could be Improved

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Maintaining education and skills training provision: further education providers
section_headers: Regulation, accountability and audit
section_content: We have suspended routine Ofsted inspections and FE Commissioner Intervention
visits and non-critical ESFA intervention. The Secretary of State for
Education has allowed Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector to do
this.
Guidance from Ofsted has confirmed that urgent inspections where specific
concerns have been raised can still go ahead. This will allow Ofsted to
prioritise the immediate safety of young people where necessary.
[FE]: further education
  [ESFA]: Education Skills Funding Agency

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Has clear information about how audits of further education will be handled during the pandemic.
The answer does not provide the guidelines that are asked for in the question. No mention of audits or accountability and regulation.

Reviewer ratings:
Excellent
Bad