DfE Update academies: 28 May 2025
Published 28 May 2025
Applies to England
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1. Information: Schools funding alongside the 2025 teacher pay award
On 22 May, we announced the 2025 teacher pay award and £615 million in new funding for schools to support them with their costs including staff pay. This comprises:
- over £470 million for mainstream schools (5 to 16) and over £10 million for centrally employed staff through the schools budget support grant (SBSG)
- almost £85 million additional funding for special and AP schools paid through the core schools budget grant
- over £30 million for 16 to 19 provision in schools funded through core 16 to 19 funding allocations
- over £15 million for early years provision in schools which will be combined with the EY NICs funding to form a £40 million early years National Insurance contributions and teachers pay grant for 2025 to 2026
We have published mainstream and high needs rates, and a SBSG calculator tool at the links above, for schools to estimate their funding.
2. Information: National Insurance (NI) contributions grant allocations
We have published allocations and conditions of grant relating to previously announced funding to support schools and post-16 providers with the increased NI contributions:
- the school level allocations for the National Insurance contributions (NICs) grant for 2025 to 2026
- the local authority level allocations for the first and second payments of the core schools budget grant (CSBG) for special schools and alternative provision 2025 to 2026 – these include the consolidated 2024 to 2025 grants (TPAG, TPECG, CSBG)
- the local authority level allocations for the National Insurance contribution and teachers pay grant (EY NTPG) for early years – these include the new teachers pay grant funding for 2025 to 2026
- the post-16 National Insurance contribution grant (Post-16 NICs)
3. Information: Post-16 budget grant
We have updated section 4 of the post-16 budget grant: conditions of grant for financial year 2025 to 2026.
We have removed the timeframe by which settings need to spend the money and have added a new section (5.1) to allow providers to carry over funding after the end of academic year 2024 to 2025.
4. Webinar: Academies chart of accounts and automation: Q&A drop-in sessions
Wednesday 25 June 2025, midday to 12:30pm. Register on Eventbrite.