ESFA Update academies: 18 September 2024
Published 18 September 2024
Applies to England
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Action: Submit your 16 to 19 tuition fund end of year spend for 2023 to 2024 by Friday 11 October 2024
You must submit a digital form to tell us your tuition fund spend if your organisation received 16 to 19 tuition funding for the academic year 2023 to 2024.
Failure to submit a report will result in the full recovery of your tuition funding for the 2023 to 2024 academic year.
We have published guidance on how to complete the digital form. You will need to submit the form by 5pm on Friday 11 October 2024.
Action: Submit your national tutoring programme year-end statement by Thursday 26 September 2024
All organisations that received the national tutoring programme (NTP) grant for the 2023 to 2024 academic year, must submit a year-end statement. The deadline for submission is Thursday 26 September 2024, by 5pm.
Complete the form, even if you did not use any of your NTP funding. If you do not complete the form, your full funding allocation will be recovered.
Read the guidance on how to submit the year-end statement and access the form.
For any other NTP queries, email the NTP support desk at tutoring.support@service.education.gov.uk.
Information: Post-16 schools budget grant
We published the methodology for the core schools budget grant in July to support schools with their overall costs, including costs of the 2024 teachers’ pay award, in the 2024 to 2025 financial year.
We will distribute funding for schools and academies with 16 to 19 provision through the post-16 schools budget grant.
We aim to publish the methodology by the end of September 2024, explaining how we will allocate the funding.
Conditions of grant and allocations will follow in October 2024.
Information: New approach to communicating pupil premium allocations to trusts
We are trialling a new approach to the way we provide pupil premium allocations to trusts. We know from your feedback and enquiries, that the suppressed allocations we provide on GOV.UK do not meet all of your needs.
Starting from the quarter 2 payment in early October, we will be uploading unsuppressed pupil premium allocations to our secure portal, document exchange. They will be available in the academy trust folder and will show the allocations for all academies in each trust. You will receive an alert from document exchange when your trust’s statement is ready to view and download.
We hope this improvement will provide you with greater clarity and make it easier for you to align pupil premium remittances with your allocations. We would be interested in your feedback. If you would like to help us by sharing your views, email funding.communications@education.gov.uk by Thursday 10 October.
Webinar: Risk protection arrangement (RPA)
Tuesday 8 October 2024, 9:30am to 10am. Register online
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