Guidance

Pension grants for schools, local authorities and music hubs

Guidance on the pension grant, supplementary fund and pension funding for local authority centrally employed teachers and music education hubs.

From:
Department for Education
Published
10 April 2019
Last updated
21 October 2022 — See all updates

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Information about teachers’ pension employer contribution grant 2023 to 2024 allocations is available separately.

Applies to England

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Pension grants for schools, local authorities and music education hubs

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This guidance is for:

  • local authorities
  • school leaders
  • school teachers
  • governing bodies and their representatives
  • music education hubs

Updates to this page

Published 10 April 2019
Last updated 21 October 2022 + show all updates

  1. The information about the provision of funding for non-maintained special schools during the 2022 to 2023 financial year was updated.

  2. Updated for the 2022 to 2023 allocations of the teachers' employer contribution grant.

  3. Updated 'Pension grants for schools, local authorities and music education hubs' to reflect allocations published in October 2021 for September 2021 to March 2022.

  4. Updated to clarify information for the 2021 to 2022 financial year for institutions not paid through the national funding formulae.

  5. Updated to reflect that the September 2020 to March 2021 allocations have now been published. These updates do not include any new announcements.

  6. Updated the grants with the rates used for 2020 to 2021.

  7. For the 5-month period from April 2020 to August 2020, rates will be five-sevenths of the 7-month rates from September 2019 to March 2020, and payments will use October 2019 pupil numbers for 5 to 16 year olds.

  8. Pension grant methodology updated.

  9. Updated pension grant methodology guidance to reflect the publication of grant allocations and supplementary fund 2019 to 2020.

  10. Added sentence to HTML attachment: 'Applications to the Supplementary Fund will be considered based on schools’ actual pension costs in November 2019.'

  11. Updated the supplementary fund guidance.

  12. Updated funding payment delivery information for the 2019 to 2020 financial year and how pupil/place numbers are used to calculate rates.

  13. Added information on how the payments will be made.

  14. First published.

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