Teachers' pay additional grant for 2023 to 2024
Guidance for schools and local authorities on the teachers' pay additional grant: allocations for 2023 to 2024 financial year.
Applies to England
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This guidance is for:
- local authorities
- school leaders
- school teachers
- governing bodies and their representatives
It relates to local authority maintained schools, academies (including free schools) and non-maintained special schools in England.
Methodology
This document sets out the methodology for the teachers pay additional grant (TPAG) 2023 to 2024. This includes guidance on how we will allocate funding in 2023 to 2024 for both mainstream schools and special schools and alternative provision (AP) schools.
Conditions of grant
Local authorities must follow the terms and conditions set out in the conditions of grant.
Allocations
TPAG allocations for mainstream schools, special schools and alternative provision schools are available, and the tables provided should be used to see how much funding each institution will receive. New and growing schools will receive their TPAG payment later in the financial year.
For both mainstream schools and special schools and alternative provision schools, the TPAG in 2023 to 2024 will be paid for the period of September 2023 to March 2024.
For the 2024 to 2025 financial year, we will continue to pay TPAG as a separate grant, and it will cover the whole of that financial year. Allocations for 2024 to 2025 will therefore be calculated using twelve sevenths of the funding rates in 2023 to 2024.
We will pay mainstream academies an additional allocation to cover April to August 2025 because their funding cycle follows the academic year – this will represent five-twelfths of academies’ 2024 to 2025 allocations.
Following the 13 July announcement we published details of how increases for 16 to 19 funding will be applied.
We have also published the allocations and details of additional funding through the early years teachers’ pay additional grant.
In February, we published the allocations for new and growing schools (schools that have opened in the past 7 years and are still adding year groups in the 2023 to 2024 academic year, and schools that opened from September 2023).
In March, we published the second allocation of TPAG funding to local authorities for special and AP schools. This allocation uses the 2023 to 2024 financial year place numbers for maintained special and AP schools (which were not available at the time of the first allocation).
Further information
The methodology for the 2024 to 2025 TPAG, in respect of the increase in teachers’ pay from September 2023, has now been published and can be found at teachers’ pay additional grant: 2024 to 2025.
Last updated 14 March 2024 + show all updates
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We have added the March 2024 allocations for special and alternative provision schools which reflects the 2023 to 2024 financial year place numbers.
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We have published TPAG school level allocations for new and growing schools.
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We have added the subsection 'Further information' on the landing page to direct users to the publication of the methodology for the 2024 to 2025 TPAG document.
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We have added a link to the early years teachers' pay additional grant guidance for local authorities and early years providers.
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We have updated the allocations spreadsheet for mainstream schools to reflect the school estate as at 1 September 2023.
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We have updated the teachers' pay grant conditions of grant for 2023 to 2024 to include information for specialist settings and have added the allocations for alternative provision and special schools. We have also amended section 1 of the methodology following publication of how 16 to 19 funding increases will be applied.
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We have added detail to the allocations section about how funding is calculated for the 2024 to 2025 year. We have also added some clarifying details to section 1 (Introduction) of the methodology.
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First published.