Back in March, the DfE announced their funding strategy for NPQs in autumn 2024 (no funding announcement has been made for spring 2025 onwards):

The following NPQs are funded for all schools:

• NPQH
• NPQLPM
• NPQ SENCO.

All other NPQs are funded only for the 50% of schools attracting the most pupil premium funding.

You can find out if your school is on the funded list here. 

The Julian Teaching School Hub has further clarification on this, please read on:

The DfE has capped the number of funded NPQ places (including for NPQH, NPQLPM, and NPQ SENCO) at 10,800 in total for the whole of England. Each lead provider therefore had to bid for the number of funded places they wanted to offer, and these places were then allocated by DfE. In turn, each lead provider had to decide how many places to allocate to each delivery partner. These decisions were not easy, and were not taken lightly.

Once the allocated funded places are filled, then schools will need to pay for NPQs even if they are on the funded list linked above.

There is no cap on unfunded (i.e., paid for by the school) places.

What NPQs are offered by the Julian TSH in autumn 2024?

For autumn 2024, the Julian TSH is offering the following NPQs:

• NPQH - delivered in partnership with TDT
• NPQSL - delivered in partnership with TDT 
• NPQLL - delivered in partnership with TDT
• NPQLTD - delivered in partnership with TDT
• NPQ SENCO - delivered in partnership with Ambition Institute
• NPQLPM - delivered in partnership with Inspiration TSH, Unity TSH, Angles Maths Hub, and the National Institute of Teaching (NIoT).

How will funded places be allocated?

For the following NPQs, funded places are being allocated on a first-come, first-served basis:

• NPQH
• NPQSL
• NPQLL
• NPQLTD
• NPQLPM.

For the NPQ SENCO we have looked at various criteria including whether the applicant is a current SENCO, and unfortunately, all of our allocated places have been filled. All other applications are being held on a waiting list.

My school is on the funded list but all your places are full? This doesn't seem fair.

We appreciate how frustrating this situation is for applicants and for schools. Unfortunately we have no power to override the decisions taken by DfE.