Initial teacher education or training (ITET)

Finance

Placement payment arrangements

Primary Core:

Phase	Action	When	When school get paid	Amount *
SE1	Raise PO and set up new suppliers	January	Within 30 days after invoiced correctly	£500 per trainee
SE2	Raise PO and set up new suppliers	June	Within 30 days after invoiced correctly	£500 per trainee
Hub school payment	Raise PO and set up new suppliers	June	Within 30 days after invoiced correctly	£1,000 per school

(Amount* subject to changes in renewed Partnership Agreement if any.)

Primary LPP:

Phase	Action	When	When school get paid	Amount *
Payment 1	Raise PO and set up new suppliers	January	Within 30 days after invoiced correctly	25% of £2,500
Payment 2	Raise PO and set up new suppliers	March	Within 30 days after invoiced correctly	25% of £2,500
Payment 3	Raise PO and set up new suppliers	June	Within 30 days after invoiced correctly	50% of £2,500

(Amount* subject to changes in renewed Partnership Agreement if any.)

Secondary Core

Phase	Action	When	When school get paid	Amount *
Placement 1	Raise PO and set up new suppliers	January	Within 30 days after invoiced correctly	£50 per full week
Placement 2	Raise PO and set up new suppliers	March	Within 30 days after invoiced correctly	£50 per full week
Placement 3	Raise PO and set up new suppliers	June	Within 30 days after invoiced correctly	£50 per full week

(Amount* subject to changes in renewed Partnership Agreement if any.)

Secondary LPP

Phase	Action	When	When school get paid	Amount *
Payment 1	Raise PO and set up new suppliers	January	Within 30 days after invoiced correctly	25% of £2,200
Payment 2	Raise PO and set up new suppliers	March	Within 30 days after invoiced correctly	25% of £2,200
Payment 3	Raise PO and set up new suppliers	June	Within 30 days after invoiced correctly	50% of £2,200

(Amount* subject to changes in renewed Partnership Agreement if any.)

Secondary mentor training:

The funding for mentor training attendance is £35 for 2 hours as specified in the Secondary Partnership Agreement, subject to changes in the renewed Partnership Agreement if any.
The payment should be claimed by mentors via PR7 forms. The most up to date PR7 form and guidelines for claimants can be found on StaffNet.

DfE Initial Teacher Training Delivery Funding

Funding provided by the Department for Education (DfE) for Lead Mentor, ITAP, and General Mentor Training activities is subject to the availability of government funding.

Payment arrangements will be approved by the Head of ITE and Programme Directors. Once approved, relevant stakeholders (including partner schools, lead mentors, and school-based staff) will be informed of the agreed payment arrangements.

Payments will be made in accordance with the approved payment plan.

For any queries, please contact the Teacher Education Team at teachereducation@manchester.ac.uk.

This information applies to both the Primary and Secondary PGCE programmes.

All other finance guidance

Teacher Education now only processes mentor training related PR7 forms. Please see the table below for the correct team for processing expenditure claim forms and their contact details.

Expenditure	Responsible Team	Email address
PGCE Secondary mentor training	Teacher Education	teachereducation@manchester.ac.uk
Assessment centre participation	PGCE Admissions	pgce@manchester.ac.uk
External Examination	External Examiner	external.examiners@manchester.ac.uk
External teaching	SEED School Office	seedschooloffice@manchester.ac.uk
PGCE Stationery and Teaching Resources	SEED School Office	seedschooloffice@manchester.ac.uk
PGCE Staff Travel	Andy Howes	Andrew.j.howes@manchester.ac.uk

Visitor carparking spaces:

Please send your car parking requests for guest speakers/school visitors to teachereducation@manchester.ac.uk with their full name, their company/organization name, and visiting date/time at least 3 working days in advance.

Safeguarding letters

For new students:

All safeguarding checks for new students are completed by the PGCE Admissions team following DfE ITT criteria and supporting advice. Teacher Education will produce safeguarding letters for fully compliant students starting from 1 August once they have matriculated successfully. Non-compliant students will also receive a non-compliant safeguarding letter stating non-completed components before their first placement. Students will normally receive their safeguarding letters approximately one week before their first day in school. Students are expected to bring their safeguarding letters and DBS certificate to their placement schools. If schools have any queries regarding safeguarding letters, please direct them to teachereducation@manchester.ac.uk.

For returners:

All safeguarding checks for new students are completed by SEED Student Support and Wellbeing team seed.wellbeing@manchester.ac.uk. Teacher Education will produce a new safeguarding letter for all returning students once they have completed their checks. Students will receive their safeguarding letters as soon as they are produced. Students are expected to bring their safeguarding letters and DBS certificate to their placement schools. If schools have any queries regarding safeguarding letters, please direct them to teachereducation@manchester.ac.uk.

Student letters

Please see below the type of student letters each team can provide and their contact details.

Type of letters	Responsible Team	Email address
Confirmation of teaching practice	Teacher Education	teachereducation@manchester.ac.uk
Council Tax	Information, Advice and Guidance team	seed.hub@manchester.ac.uk
Reference letter	Information, Advice and Guidance team	seed.hub@manchester.ac.uk
Physical certificate and transcript	Student Service Centre	Transcripts and certificates website

Registration and Timetabling

Please refer to the relevant information on the programmes and curriculum page.

Contact

PGCE placement queries – teachereducation@manchester.ac.uk