Guidance

Teachers' pay grant April to August 2021 allocations: data sources

Updated 2 November 2021

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Applies to England

1. 1. Allocations

The allocation spreadsheet shows:

  • school level allocations for mainstream schools. This shows the pupil numbers used to generate the total allocation for each school
  • local authority level allocations for high needs institutions. This shows each institution in the local authority, and the number of places used to calculate the overall allocation

Local authorities will receive an allocation for high needs provision in their area, which they must distribute between all providers. Further details are given in the conditions of grant.

2. 2. Data sources

For 2 to 4 year olds in mainstream schools, we have used the headcount of children in funded early years places. In line with the early years funding guidance for the 2021 to 2022 financial year, allocations will be based on the higher of the January 2021 census headcount or 85% of the January 2020 census.

For pupils in mainstream schools aged 5 to 16, we have used the headcount of pupils, from the October 2020 census.

For pupils in mainstream schools aged 16 to 19, we used the pupil numbers from the 2020 to 2021 academic year funding allocations. We have converted the data into full time equivalents (FTE) based on the number of hours each student attends the school, as shown below. Band 1 students are shown on an FTE basis in the funding allocations, so we have used this directly.

Band Number of hours FTE
7 725 1.208
5 540-600 1
4 450-539 0.825
3 360-449 0.675
2 280-359 0.533

The autumn 2021 allocations will include retrospective adjustments to the April to August 2021 allocations for post-16 institutions which have seen an increase in pupil numbers.

We have used the published place numbers for academies for academic year 2020 to 2021for alternative provision free schools and special free schools that opened after the 1 September 2020.

3. 3. New and growing schools

Mainstream schools which opened between October 2019 and September 2020 did not appear on the census data used for the September 2020 to March 2021 allocations. These schools therefore received funding allocations based on the minimum level of 100 pupils.

Alongside their April to August 2021 allocation, new schools will receive an update to their September 2020 to March 2021 allocation based on their 2020 to 2021 pupil numbers. Schools that were not fully open in October 2019, and were still growing by adding year groups, will also receive an updated September 2020 to March 2021 allocation to reflect that growth.