Pension grants for schools, local authorities and music hubs

Guidance on the pension grant, supplementary fund, and pension funding for local authority centrally employed teachers, and music hubs.

Published 10 April 2019
Last updated 13 November 2020 + show all updates

1. 13 November 2020

   Updated to reflect that the September 2020 to March 2021 allocations have now been published. These updates do not include any new announcements.

2. 21 August 2020

   Updated the grants with the rates used for 2020 to 2021.
3. 27 February 2020

   For the 5-month period from April 2020 to August 2020, rates will be five-sevenths of the 7-month rates from September 2019 to March 2020, and payments will use October 2019 pupil numbers for 5 to 16 year olds.

4. 2 December 2019

   Pension grant methodology updated.

5. 23 October 2019

   Updated pension grant methodology guidance to reflect the publication of grant allocations and supplementary fund 2019 to 2020.

6. 7 August 2019

   Added sentence to HTML attachment: ‘Applications to the Supplementary Fund will be considered based on schools’ actual pension costs in November 2019.’

7. 16 July 2019

   Updated the supplementary fund guidance.

8. 25 June 2019

   Updated funding payment delivery information for the 2019 to 2020 financial year and how pupil/place numbers are used to calculate rates.

9. 12 April 2019

   Added information on how the payments will be made.

10. 10 April 2019

    First published.