Pupil Premium - eligibility and strategy plan
PUPIL PREMIUM
What is Pupil Premium?
The pupil premium is additional funding for publicly funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities and to close the gaps between them and their peers.
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:
- to support other pupils with identified needs, such as those who have or have had a social worker, or who act as a carer
- for whole class interventions which will also benefit non-disadvantaged pupils
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:
- £1,480 for pupils in reception year to year 6
Schools will also receive £2,570 for each pupil identified in the spring school census as having left local-authority care because of 1 of the following:
- adoption
- a special guardianship order
- a child arrangements order
- 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 £2,570 rate.
Children who have been in local-authority care for 1 day or more also attract £2,570 of pupil premium funding. Funding for these pupils is managed by the virtual school head (VSH) in the local authority that looks after the child.
EYFS Pupil Premium
If parents are eligible - school can claim up to £388 per year to support qualifying children in Nursery.
To be eligible families need to meet one of the following criteria:
Their family gets one of the following:
- Income Support
- income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance
- support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
- the guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
- Child Tax Credit (provided they’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
- Working Tax Credit run-on, which is paid for four weeks after they stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
- Universal Credit (provided they have an annual net earned income equivalent to and not exceeding £7,400, assessed on up to three of the parent’s most recent Universal Credit assessment periods.)
They have been in local-authority care for one day or more in England or Wales
They’ve left care under a special guardianship order, child arrangements order or adoption order.