Funding status for current Cambridge Technicals qualifications
The Department for Education (DfE) published the outcome of their review of post-16 qualification reform on 12 December 2025. The review was set up to determine which qualifications will be funded for 16-19 learners in England for the 2025/26 academic year. The funded post-16 qualifications will sit alongside A Levels and T Levels.
A number of Level 3 Cambridge Technicals qualifications will be defunded by July 2025. Our Level 3 qualifications page sets out at a glance the funding status for our Level 3 vocational qualifications.
Our new Level 3 Alternative Academic Qualifications - Cambridge Advanced Nationals - are approved for funding for first teaching from September 2025.
The following qualifications currently will no longer attract funding from July 2025.
| Qualification (2012 suite) | Funded from September 2025 |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Certificate in Health and Social Care (180 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Introductory Diploma in Health and Social Care (360 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Subsidiary Diploma in Health and Social Care (540 GLH) | NO |
| Qualification (2016 suite) | Funded from September 2025 |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Certificate in Applied Science (180 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Extended Certificate in Applied Science (360 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Foundation Diploma in Applied Science (540 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma in Applied Science (1080 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Certificate in Engineering (180 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Extended Certificate in Engineering (360 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Foundation Diploma in Engineering (540 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Certificate in Health and Social Care (180 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Extended Certificate in Health and Social Care (360 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Foundation Diploma in Health and Social Care (540 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Certificate in Information Technology (180 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Extended Certificate in Information Technology (360 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Introductory Diploma in Information Technology (360 GLH) | NO |
| OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technical Foundation Diploma in Information Technology (540 GLH) | NO |
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