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Teaching and learning responsibility (TLR) payments

Understand the rules around what you can award, the criteria teachers need to meet, and the payment values this year.

Last reviewed on 22 November 2024See updates
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Contents
  1. There are 3 types of TLR payment
  2. Teachers must meet certain criteria to be eligible 
  3. Payment values are set yearly
  4. Rules about holding concurrent payments
  5. You normally can't withdraw TLRs

There are 3 types of TLR payment

You can award teaching and learning responsibility (TLR) payments when:

  • A classroom teacher is undertaking a sustained additional responsibility for the purpose of ensuring the continued delivery of high-quality teaching and learning; and
  • The teacher will be made accountable for that responsibility

The 3 types of TLR payment are:

  • TLR1 payments: for sustained additional responsibilities, with line management responsibilities for a significant number of people 
  • TLR2 payments: for sustained additional responsibilities
  • TLR3 payments: fixed-term payments for clearly time-limited school improvement projects or one-off externally driven responsibilities

This is set out on pages 27 and 28, and 78 to 80 of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD).

Academies are free to determine their own pay arrangements for new staff, or to renegotiate pay arrangements for existing staff, but they may