Collection

Local authorities: pre-16 schools funding

Guidance, allocations and conditions of grant for pre-16 schools funding.

From:
Education and Skills Funding Agency
Published
9 October 2019
Last updated
10 April 2024 — See all updates

View the funding education for 16 to 19 year olds for guidance relating to post-16 funding.

Pre-16 schools funding

These pages provide guidance for local authorities about school revenue funding.

Dedicated schools grant

These pages provide information and guidance about the dedicated schools grant.

High needs funding

These pages provide information for local authorities about high needs funding arrangements.

Early years funding

These pages provides early years funding rates and operational guidance for local authorities.

Pupil premium

These pages provide information, allocations and the conditions of grant for pupil premium.

Universal infant free school meals (UIFSM)

These pages show how much UIFSM funding schools receive, and advice on how to spend it.

Teachers' pay grant

These pages show the allocations and conditions of grant for local authorities for the teachers’ pay grant.

Teachers' pay additional grant (TPAG)

Teachers' pension employer contribution grant (TPECG)

These pages provide information on the TPECG.

Section 251

These pages provide information about local authority education funding and expenditure plans.

PE and sport, FSM and school improvement grants

These pages provide information about PE and sport, free school meals and school improvement grants.

Other grants

These pages provide information about the other grants local authorities may receive.

Data and quality assurance

These pages provide guidance to help local authorities collect information about their income and expenditure.

Authority proforma tool (APT)

National non-domestic rates (NNDR)

These pages provide information and guidance about the national non-domestic rates (NNDR) for local authorities.

Other information

These pages provide other information for local authorities about pre-16 funding.

Published 9 October 2019
Last updated 10 April 2024 + show all updates

  1. We've added 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025 guidance pages.

  2. We have added links to the following pages: - pupil premium allocations and conditions of grant 2024 to 2025 - academies and dedicated schools grant recoupment - targeted support funding for national professional qualifications - backfill payments for time off timetable for early career framework (ECF) mentor training (national roll-out) - funding for time off timetable for early career teachers and mentors who participated in the national roll-out of the early career framework reforms - newly qualified teachers grant for 2021 to 2022 - academy national non-domestic rates (NNDR) claims

  3. We have added the link to PE and sport premium: conditions of grant 2023 to 2024 to this collection page.

  4. We have added the authority proforma tool guidance for 2024 to 2025; the dedicated schools grant for 2024 to 2025; and the teachers pay additional grant 2024 to 2025. We have also updated the schools operational guidance and the high needs operational guidance.

  5. We have added the early years funding: 2024 to 2025 to this collection page

  6. The guidance for chief finance officers completing the dedicated schools grant assurance statement for the 2022 to 2023 financial year has been added to this collection.

  7. We have added links to the following 2024 to 2024 pages: - high needs funding arrangements - pre-16 schools funding: local authority guidance - national funding formula tables for schools and high needs - teachers' pay additional grant (TPAG)

  8. We've added updated pages for the 2023 to 2024 year for various sections.

  9. We have added the link to the webpage dedicated schools grant (DSG): 2023 to 2024.

  10. We have added national non-domestic rates (NNDR) to document collection

  11. We've added in guidance pages for the 2023 to 2024 year.

  12. Addition of link to universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) 2022 to 2023 page.

  13. Added teachers' pay grant and teachers’ pension grant: 2022 to 2023 allocations to collection.

  14. Updated to include link to pupil premium: allocations and conditions of grant for 2022 to 2023.

  15. Added the section 251 2022 to 2023 page.

  16. We've added new pages for the 2022 to 2023 year in DSG, high needs and early years and APT. We've also added the 2022 to 2023 schools supplementary grant in 'other grants'

  17. We have added the pre-16 schools funding: local authority guidance for 2022 to 2023

  18. Added a link to the 'National funding formula tables for schools and high needs: 2022 to 2023' page in the 'Pre-16 schools funding' section.

  19. We have updated the guidance on how to complete the authority proforma tool (APT) for 2021 to 2022.

  20. We have added the PE and sport premium: conditions of grant for 2020 to 2021.

  21. We have added the dedicated schools grant (DSG) deficit management plan page.

  22. We have added the high needs funding arrangements for 2021 to 2022.

  23. We have added the high needs benchmarking tool to the 'High needs funding' section.

  24. We have added the 2021 to 2022 guidance and national funding formula tables for schools and high needs to the 'Pre-16 schools funding section'. We have added details of the teachers' pension grant supplementary fund to the 'Teachers' pension employer contribution grant (TPECG)' section.

  25. We've added updated guidance pages.

  26. First published.

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