Post-16 budget grant
The post-16 budget grant will help institutions with their overall costs in the 2024 to 2025 financial year, following confirmation of the 2024 teacher pay award.聽
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.
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December 2024 for academies鈥���
From April 2025, the grant includes further education colleges and sixth-form colleges and is called the post-16 budget grant.聽
We will pay the post-16 budget grant payment in:聽
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June 2025 for local authorities and further education settings聽
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July 2025 for academies聽
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This sets out the methodology for each period of the grant聽
Conditions of grant聽
This sets out the terms and conditions that local authorities and settings must follow for each period of the grant.聽
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We have published 2 sets of allocations at an institutional level showing the funding amounts we have allocated:聽
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Post-16 schools budget grant allocations September 2024 to March 2025聽
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Post-16 budget grant allocations April 2025 to the end of the academic year 2024 to 2025
Updates to this page
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We have published the funding methodology, conditions of grant and institution level allocations for the post-16 budget grant for April 2025 to July 2025. This was previously called the post-16 schools budget grant. From April 2025, the grant includes further education colleges and sixth-form colleges and is called the post-16 budget grant.
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We have added the post-16 schools budget grant conditions of grant and allocations for the financial year 2024 to 2025
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First published.