Teachers’ pension employer contribution grant 2024 for schools, high needs settings and local authorities: 2024 to 2025
Guidance for schools and local authorities on the teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) 2024 for March 2024 to April 2025.
Applies to England
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Details
The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025. All activity has moved to the Department for Education (DfE). You should continue to follow this guidance.
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), hospital schools, non-maintained special schools, independent special schools, and centrally employed teachers in England.
You can find guidance on the teachers pension scheme employer contribution grant for further education providers that participate in the scheme and 16 to 19 maintained schools and academies for 2024 to 2025.
For early years, we have already included additional funding in published core rates for 2024 to 2025.
Methodology
This document sets out the methodology for teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) 2024. This includes guidance on how we will allocate funding in the 2024 to 2025 financial year for mainstream schools (for the 5 to 16-year-old age range), special schools (including maintained special schools, special academies and free schools, hospital schools, non-maintained special schools (NMSS) and independent special schools) and alternative provision, and local authorities with centrally employed teachers.
Conditions of grant
This document sets out the terms and conditions that local authorities, academies and NMSS must follow.
Allocations
To help schools with their planning, we created a calculator for mainstream schools and academies to estimate what their TPECG 2024 allocation for 2024 to 2025 would be. We have since published school level allocations showing the total funding allocated for 2024 to 2025 for mainstream and special schools, and for centrally employed teachers.
Payments
Payments will be made in 2 tranches. The first payment for the period April to August 2024 will be made to:
- local authorities for maintained schools (5 to 16) on 31 May
- academies (5 to 16) on 10 June
- non-maintained special schools (NMSS) on 18 June
- historical (shown as high needs) NMSS on 18 July
Further information on payments can be found in the methodology document.
Academies will receive an additional payment of the TPECG 24 (to cover April to August 2025) in May 2025.