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TLR payments for part-time teachers: values and calculations

Understand how to calculate teaching and learning responsibility (TLR) payments for part-time teachers based on the amount of responsibility they take on. Find out the new requirements from September 2026.

Last reviewed on 4 December 2025
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Contents
  1. Current state of play and changes from 2026
  2. TLR3 payments are not pro-rated for part-time teachers
  3. Determine the value of TLR payments fairly and appropriately
  4. Part-time teachers with a larger proportion of TLR responsibilities 
  5. Full-time teachers sharing responsibilities with part-time teachers
  6. Keep staff workload in mind
  7. You must review TLRs regularly 

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Current state of play and changes from 2026

Under the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD), if you award teaching and learning responsibility (TLR) payments for your part-time teachers, you're no longer required to calculate them in line with their full-time equivalent.

From September 2025: 

  • You can choose to base the value of any new or existing TLR1 or TLR2 payments for a part-time teacher according to how much responsibility they take on – you're no longer required to use the pro-rata calculation 
  • Full-time teachers can also get a ‘part-time’ TLR if they share the responsibilities with another teacher (read more about this in the section below)

You must determine the value of these payments on the proportion of the TLR the teacher is taking on, regardless of the amount of hours they work (i.e. the proportion of