Targeted support funding for national professional qualifications
Guidance about targeted support funding for schools and 16 to 19 organisations with 1 to 600 pupils for the 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024 academic years.
Applies to England
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Guidance on the targeted support payments for schools and 16 to 19 organisations with 1 to 600 pupils that employ teachers and leaders who take national professional qualifications (NPQs). This is for the 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024 academic years.
This guidance is for:
- headteachers
- schools staff
- local authorities
It applies to:
- academies and free schools
- city technology college
- community schools
- foundation schools
- further education colleges
- pupil referral units
- secure units
- service children’s education
- sixth form colleges
- special schools and special post-16 institutions
- studio schools
- university technical college
- voluntary aided and voluntary controlled schools
Conditions of grant
This guidance sets out the terms and conditions applied to the NPQ targeted support fund grant allocations and payments to eligible organisations in each respective academic year for 2022 to 2023 and 2023 and 2024.
Allocations
In June, we published the NPQ targeted support funding grant allocations (small schools) June 2023 spreadsheet for organisations with participants who registered and commenced their NPQ in the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
In October, we published the updated 2022 to 2023 allocations spreadsheet for the grant funding on the NPQ targeted support fund grant allocations. These updated allocations now include the sweep up payments which will be made to organisations with participants who started their NPQ in the 2022 to 2023 academic year but were not paid in the previous summer 2023 payment window.
Please note, for ease, rather than publishing 2 separate spreadsheets, we have published June 2023 and October/November 2023 allocations on a single combined spreadsheet national professional qualification (NPQ) targeted support funding grant allocations (small schools) 2023.
Payments
We will make payments in arrears during the summer term after the NPQ participants begin their course.
We paid the 2022 to 2023 allocations to local authority maintained schools in June 2023 and to academies in July 2023. We are making a further payment to independent special schools from July 2023 onwards.
A sweep up payment will be made to maintained schools in October 2023 and academies in November 2023, as well as all eligible 16 to 19 organisations, to ensure all schools and organisations not captured in the summer 2023 payment window are paid in year.
Any late eligibility claims will be paid in the summer 2024 payment window.
Further information
There are more details on funding for NPQs and the NPQ courses.
For any further information, contact continuing-professional-development@digital.education.gov.uk.
Last updated 25 October 2023 + show all updates
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We have published the revised 'National professional qualification (NPQ) targeted support funding grant allocations (small schools) October and November 2023' spreadsheet for participants who started in the 2022 to 2023 academic year, to include the sweep up payments we will make in October/November 2023.
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Added spreadsheets showing 16 to 19 organisations eligible for targeted support funding, and updated links.
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National professional qualification targeted support funding grant: conditions of grant for the 2022 to 2023 academic year - we have updated the 'Eligibility' section of this document to advise users that eligibility is assessed at the point of registration and based on the information provided during this process. We have also updated the wording in the final paragraph of the 'Assurance' section in line with wording in the 2023 to 2024 conditions of grant. We have published the national professional qualification (NPQ) targeted support funding grant allocations (small schools) June 2023 spreadsheet for participants who started in the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
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Targeted support funding for national professional qualifications landing page - we have updated wording to include reference to the conditions of grant 2023 to 2024. National professional qualification targeted support funding: conditions of grant 2022 to 2023 academic year - we have updated wording in Section 1. National professional qualification targeted support funding: conditions of grant 2023 to 2024 academic year - has been added to the page.
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We've added in an extra paragraph within the payments section for local authorities.
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First published.