Teachers' pension scheme employer contribution grant: further education providers
Guidance on how we allocate funding for this grant.
Applies to England
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The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025. All activity has moved to the Department for Education (DfE). You should continue to follow this guidance.
This guidance is for further education providers that participate in the teachers鈥� pension scheme. Please check the eligibility section for more information.聽聽
This includes some:聽
- general further education colleges聽
- sixth-form colleges聽
- designated institutions (including the new designated institutions that form part of higher education provider group structures)聽
- special post-16 institutions聽
- adult and community learning providers that are part of a local authority
Updates to this page
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We鈥檝e updated the page with the new grant methodology for academic year 2025 to 2026. We鈥檝e removed the guidance for 2023 to 2024 as this is no longer current.
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We have added guidance for the 2024 to 2025 academic year, and updated the 2023 to 2024 guidance to include the SCAPE rate rise from April 2024.
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We have updated this to include details for 2023 to 2024
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We have updated the guidance and confirmed the arrangements for the teachers鈥� pension scheme funding allocations for the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
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We have updated the guidance under the '2021 to 2022 academic year' section to confirm the approach that will be used to calculate the payments for the teachers' pension grant.
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We have added confirmation that we will pay the FE teachers鈥� pension scheme employer contribution grant for the full academic year 2021 to 2022.
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we have updated the information on payments for the 2020 to 2021 academic year
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We have confirmed how we will calculate and make payments for 2019 to 2020
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