DfE Update academies: 28 May 2025
Published 28 May 2025
Applies to England
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1. Information: Schools funding alongside the 2025 teacher pay award
On 22 May, we announced the 2025 teacher pay award and 拢615 million in new funding for schools to support them with their costs including staff pay. This comprises:
- over 拢470 million for mainstream schools (5 to 16) and over 拢10 million for centrally employed staff through 迟丑别听schools budget support grant听(厂叠厂骋)
- almost 拢85 million additional funding for special and AP schools paid through 迟丑别听core schools budget grant
- over 拢30 million for 16 to 19 provision in schools funded through core 16 to 19 funding allocations聽聽
- over 拢15 million for early years provision in schools which will be combined with the EY NICs funding to form a 拢40 million聽early years National Insurance contributions and teachers pay grant for 2025 to 2026
We have published mainstream and high needs rates, and a SBSG calculator tool at the links above, for schools to estimate their funding.
2. Information: National Insurance (NI) contributions grant allocations
We have published allocations and conditions of grant relating to previously announced funding to support schools and post-16 providers with the increased NI contributions:
- the school level allocations for 迟丑别听National Insurance contributions (NICs) grant聽for 2025 to 2026
- the local authority level allocations for the first and second payments of 迟丑别听core schools budget grant (CSBG) for special schools and alternative provision 2025 to 2026聽鈥� these include聽the consolidated 2024 to 2025 grants (TPAG, TPECG, CSBG)
- the local authority level allocations for 迟丑别听National Insurance contribution and teachers pay grant (EY NTPG) for early years聽鈥� these include聽the new teachers pay grant funding for 2025 to 2026
- 迟丑别听post-16 National Insurance contribution grant (Post-16 NICs)
3. Information: Post-16 budget grant
We have updated section 4 of 迟丑别听post-16 budget grant: conditions of grant for financial year 2025 to 2026.
We have removed the timeframe by which settings need to spend the money and have added a new section (5.1) to allow providers to carry over funding after the end of academic year 2024 to 2025.
4. Webinar: Academies chart of accounts and automation: Q&A drop-in sessions
Wednesday 25 June 2025, midday to 12:30pm. .