Academy funding payments: remittance advice guide
Information to help academies understand the remittance advice notes that accompany their funding payments.
Applies to England
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Information on the ‘activity descriptions’ used in the monthly remittance advice notes to academies.
This will help academies understand what funding they have received and why. It includes information on:
- pre-16 funding
- 16 to 19 funding
- high needs grants
- pupil premium
- PE and sports grant
- universal infant free school meals
Revenue funding: payments to academies has more information.
Academies get separate remittance advice notes for capital payments.
Updates to this page
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Updated for the 2026 to 2027 academic year.
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We have updated the remittance advice guide for 2025 to 2026.
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We have revised the academies remittance advice guide so that links now take users to the latest (2024 to 2025) information. We have also removed the obsolete section on COVID-19 related funding.
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We have updated the remittance guidance to include links to the allocations and other related guidance for 2023 to 2024
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We have updated the remittance guidance following changes to activity descriptors and have included links to guidance for 2022 to 2023.
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Academies remittance advice guide updated to include links to general annual grant allocation, high needs funding, free school meals and teachers pay grant allocations guidance for 2021 to 2022.
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Page updated for the 2020 to 2021 year
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Academies remittance advice guide updated with links to allocations guidance for 2019 to 2020
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We have updated this guidance with information for the 2018 to 2019 academic year.
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We've updated this for the 2017 to 2018 academic year
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Updated information and links for the 2016 to 2017 academic year.
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First published.