Guidance

Teachers' pay grant September 2018 to March 2019 allocations: supporting information

Updated 25 April 2019

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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 provision. 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.

2. How schools will receive their funding

Mainstream academies will receive their grant directly from the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). Mainstream maintained schools will receive their funding via their local authority. Non-maintained special schools will receive their grant directly from ESFA, in line with their usual funding process. Further information about this is given in the conditions of grant.

3. New and growing schools

As part of the payment in spring 2019, we have made an adjustment for new and growing schools. Where a new school was funded as if it had 100 pupils in the financial year 2018 to 2019 allocations, their allocation for the financial year 2018 to 2019 will be adjusted to take account of their actual pupil numbers in the October 2018 census. If a school had fewer than 100 pupils in the October 2018 census, there will be no adjustment.

For example, a primary school in Lambeth newly opened in September 2018:

• autumn 2018 allocations, this school was funded on the basis of having 100 pupils
• the school is eligible for the “inner London” rate
• the school was allocated £2,112 in autumn 2018
• the school had 120 pupils at the October 2018 census
• additional payment to be paid in April 2019 of £423 based on 20 pupils at the 2018 to 2019 inner London primary rate (20 x £21.12)

A growing school is defined as one which is continuing to add year groups following opening, and added an additional year group between October 2017 and October 2018. For these schools, we will make an adjustment to their 2018 to 2019 financial year allocation. They will receive the difference between the funding they received using the pupil numbers from the October 2017 census and that using the updated pupil numbers from the October 2018 census.

For example, a primary school in Knowsley newly opened in September 2014:

• the school had 120 pupils in year groups reception to Y3 at the October 2017 census
• the school is eligible for the “rest of England” rate of £17.76 per pupil
• the school was allocated £2,131 in autumn 2018 (120 x £17.76)
• this school added a new year group 4 in autumn term 2018, so is classified as a growing school
• the school has 150 pupils recorded in October 2018 census
• the final allocation is recalculated as £2,664 (150 x £17.76)
• the additional allocation paid in April 2019 is therefore £533 (£2,664 minus £2,131)

Schools which have seen growth in pupil numbers, but are not adding additional year groups will not see any adjustments to their funding.

4. Data used in the allocations

For 2 to 4 year olds in mainstream schools, we have used the headcount of children in funded early years places, from the January 2018 census. For pupils in mainstream schools aged 5 to 16, we have used the headcount of pupils, from the October 2017 census. For pupils in mainstream schools aged 16 to 19, we have used the pupil numbers from the 2018 to 2019 academic year funding allocations, with full time equivalents (FTEs) as defined below: Band 1 students appear as FTE in the funding allocations, so we use this directly.

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

We have used the published place numbers for academies for academic year 2018 to 2019 for

• special academies

• special free schools

• alternative provision academies

• alternative provision free schools

For maintained special schools and pupil referral units we have used the place numbers from the 2018 to 2019 Section 251 budget returns. For some hospital schools, we use the place numbers from the general hospital school census. For hospital schools that do not appear in any census, we are funding at the minimum level of 40 places.