Information: Post-16 budget grant and Teachers’ pension scheme employer contribution grants (TPSECG)
3 April 2025
We have received some enquiries recently about these post-16 grants. This is where you can find the relevant information.
Post-16 budget grant
Academic year 2024 to 2025 - this is the former post-16 schools budget grant and this grant stops at the end of academic year 2024 to 2025.
From April 2025, the grant includes further education (FE) colleges and sixth-form colleges and is called the post-16 budget grant. We will communicate the methodology, conditions of grant and institution-level funding allocations in May 2025.
Academic year 2025 to 2026 - we have brought the grant into the national funding rate which will be the same for all institutions with a 16 to 19 allocation.
16 to 19 TPSECG – financial year 2025 to 2026
We’re paying the grant for maintained mainstream schools and mainstream academies with 16 to 19 provision in 2 instalments.
FE TPSECG – academic year 2025 to 2026
FE providers will receive this as part of your 16 to 19 funding allocation.