Correspondence

ESFA Update local authorities: 1 May 2019

Published 1 May 2019

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Applies to England

1. Information: teachers’ pay grant allocations for the 2019 to 2020 financial year

Last week we published the teachers’ pay grant (TPG) allocations for the 2019 to 2020 financial year. The supporting information document sets out the data we have used in the grant calculations.

We have also updated the 2018 to 2019 financial year allocations for new schools, and those schools that have added an additional year group between October 2017 and October 2018.

We updated the rates for primary schools for 2019 to 2020 to take account of the double counting of 4 year olds that was identified and communicated last autumn. All other rates are as published in October 2018.

Further information on the rates and eligibility for TPG is available.

We will make the first TPG payment for 2019 to 2020 to local authorities, for maintained schools and high needs settings, on Tuesday 30 April 2019.

We will make the second payment for 2019 to 2020 in autumn 2019.

2. Information: 16 to 19 funding rates and formula guidance

We have published the 16 to 19 funding rates and formula guidance for academic year 2019 to 2020 on GOV.UK.

We have made some small changes this year and to help you, we have listed these in the front of the guide. We aim to publish further funding guidance for young people during April and May.

If you have any queries please contact us using our online enquiry form.

3. Information: sharing best practice to reduce workload

To help share the workload reduction toolkit with more teachers and encourage the sharing of best practice, the department is hosting a free event for school leaders and governors in London on Friday 17 May 2019 and Manchester on Thursday 23 May 2019.

The agenda includes:

  • a presentation from Sean Harford, from Ofsted, on school workload and the new inspection framework
  • presentations and workshops from school leaders on the actions they’re taking to reduce workload and change school cultures, linked to the workload reduction toolkit
  • workshops for governors on their strategic role in reducing workload and how best to use the new governor-focussed resource in the toolkit

For more information and to sign up, please visit the reducing teacher workload event registration page.

The event is free of charge but spaces are limited.