Teachers' pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) September 2021 to March 2022 allocations: data sources
Updated 2 November 2021
Applies to England
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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 institutions - this shows each institution in the local authority, and the number of places used to calculate the overall allocation
- school level allocations for non-maintained special schools (NMSS), which are paid directly by ESFA to NMSSs.
- post-16 adjustment for April 2021 to August 2021 allocations. In scope institutions will have their April 2021 to August 2021 allocations re-stated using the revised post-16 data.
Local authorities will receive an allocation for high needs provision in their area, which they must distribute between all providers. Further details are given in the conditions of grant.
2. Data sources
For 2 to 4 year olds in mainstream schools, we have used the headcount of children in funded early years places. In line with the early years funding guidance for the 2021 to 2022 financial year, allocations will be based on the higher of the January 2021 census headcount or 85% of the January 2020 census.
For pupils in mainstream schools aged 5 to 16, we have used the headcount of pupils, from the October 2020 census, to ascertain which schools were funded on the minimum 100 pupils in their core funding.
For pupils in mainstream schools aged 16 to 19, we used the pupil numbers from the 2021 to 2022 academic year funding allocations. We have converted the data into full time equivalents (FTE) based on the number of hours each student attends the school, as shown below. Band 1 students are shown on an FTE basis in the funding allocations, so we have used this directly.
| Band | Number of hours | FTE |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 725 | 1.208 |
| 6 | 625 | 1.042 |
| 5 | 540 to 600 | 1 |
| 4 | 450 to 539 | 0.825 |
| 3 | 360 to 449 | 0.675 |
| 2 | 280 to 359 | 0.533 |
The October 2021 allocations include retrospective adjustments to the April to August 2021 allocations for post-16 institutions which have seen an increase in pupil numbers.
The majority of high needs funding for the TPG and TPECG has now been rolled into the high needs NFF. We have used the published place numbers for academies for academic year 2021 to 2022 for:
- new special free schools opened after 1 September 2020
- new alternative provision free schools opened after 1 September 2020
- non-maintained special schools