These funding manuals provide information to schools and ITT providers on School Direct (salaried) funding in England, including:
criteria and requirements
funding rates and funded subjects
how payments are made
reconciliation, assurance and audit
The School Direct (salaried) route allows schools to:
request training places directly
select the ITT provider of teacher training they want to work with
agree the content and focus of the training programme depending on their needs
Schools can choose and recruit the candidate they want, with an expectation that the trainee will be employed by the school or wider partnership of schools.
Published 18 December 2018 Last updated 28 November 2024 +show all updates
Added 'School Direct (salaried) funding manual: 2025 to 2026 academic year'.
Removed 'International relocation payments' section from 'School Direct (salaried) funding manual: 2024 to 2025 academic year' as trainees are no longer eligible.
Added 'School Direct (salaried) funding manual: 2024 to 2025 academic year'.
Added 'School Direct (salaried) funding manual: 2023 to 2024 academic year'.
Updated the list of eligible subjects in 'Initial teacher training bursaries funding manual: 2022 to 2023 academic year' to include engineering and food technology as part of design and technology.
Added 'School Direct (salaried) funding manual: 2022 to 2023 academic year'.
Updated 'What is School Direct (salaried) funding?' section of 'School Direct (salaried) funding manual: 2021 to 2022 academic year'.
Added updated link to funding guidance, and added 'School Direct (salaried) funding manual: 2021 to 2022 academic year'.
Updated the 2020 to 2021 manual to set out that trainees must also demonstrate they meet the degree standard before 30 November 2020.
Added 'School Direct (salaried) funding manual 2019 to 2020 academic year'.
Amended the 'conditions of grant' section in the School Direct (salaried) funding manual for 2019 to 2020.
Updates made to 'Conditions of grant' and 'Withdrawals' for the 2019 to 2020 academic year.
