Guidance

Teachers' pay additional grant 2024 to 2025

Guidance for schools and local authorities on the teachers' pay additional grant: allocations for 2024 to 2025 financial year.

Applies to England

Documents

Details

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 (NMSS) in England.

Methodology

This document sets out the methodology for the teachers’ pay additional grant (TPAG) 2024 to 2025. This includes guidance on how we will allocate funding in 2024 to 2025 for both mainstream schools and special schools and alternative provision (AP) schools.

Conditions of grant

This document sets out the terms and conditions that local authorities, academies and NMSS must follow.

Allocations

We have published school level allocations showing the funding allocated for 2024 to 2025 for mainstream and special schools.

Payments

Local authorities and academies will receive their payments for 2024 to 2025 in 2 tranches. Payments will be made in May 2024 for local authorities, and June 2024 for academies, to cover April 2024 to August 2024; and in October 2024 for local authorities, and November 2024 for academies, to cover September 2024 to March 2025.

More information on payments can be found in the methodology document.

Further information

You can find further details on the 2023 to 2024 TPAG at teachers’ pay additional grant: 2023 to 2024.

Updates to this page

Published 19 December 2023
Last updated 23 October 2024 + show all updates
  1. We have added the October teachers' pay additional grant allocations for mainstream schools; this excludes new and growing schools who will receive their second payment in early 2025.

  2. We have amended sections 3.2 and 5.2 of the methodology document to explain the data sources for the allocation calculations, and accordingly revised the TPAG allocation table to clarify the calculation of the grant.

  3. We have published the conditions of grant and updated sections 3.2, 4.2 and 5.2 of the methodology to give the current position concerning high needs and additional costs. We have also published spreadsheets showing the 2024 to 2025 allocations for mainstream and special schools.

  4. First published.

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