PUPIL PREMIUM
What is Pupil Premium
The pupil premium grant provides funding to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in state-funded schools in England.
The grant also provides support for children and young people of service families, referred to as service pupil premium (SPP). This has been combined into pupil premium payments to make it easier for schools to manage their spending. Pupils that the SPP intends to support are not necessarily from financially disadvantaged backgrounds.
We want to support all schools to use the wealth of evidence of ‘what works’, evaluated by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), to use this funding effectively to drive high and rising standards for disadvantaged pupils.
Funding criteria
Pupil premium funding is allocated to eligible schools based on the number of:
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pupils who are recorded as eligible for free school meals, or have been recorded as eligible in the past 6 years (referred to as Ever 6 FSM)
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children previously looked after by a local authority or other state care, including children adopted from state care or equivalent from outside England and Wales
Pupil premium is not a personal budget for individual pupils, and schools do not have to spend pupil premium so that it solely benefits pupils who meet the funding criteria. It can be used:
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to support other pupils with identified needs, such as those who have or have had a social worker, or who act as a carer
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for whole class interventions which will also benefit non-disadvantaged pupils
Pupil premium funding is allocated to local authorities based on the number of:
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looked-after children, supported by the local authority
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pupils who meet any of the eligibility criteria and who attend an independent setting, where the local authority pays full tuition fees
Funding
Schools will receive the following funding for each child registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years:
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£1,515 for pupils in reception year to year 6
Schools will also receive £2,630 for each pupil identified in the spring school census as having left local-authority care because of 1 of the following:
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adoption
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a special guardianship order
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a child arrangements order
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a residence order
If a pupil has been registered as eligible for free school meals and has also left local-authority care for any of the reasons above, they will attract the £2,630 rate.