Pupil Premium
The Pupil Premium is grant funding direct from the Government and is in addition to the school's Delegated Budget. It is allocated to children who are on Free School Meals (FSM) or who have ever received FSM over the last 6 years, children who have been looked after continuously for more than 6 months, children who are adopted or service children. For more information click on the link
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-information-for-schools-and-alternative-provision-settings
This link below is in particular to information regarding Pupil Premium Plus for Looked After Children
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/pupil-premium-virtual-school-heads-responsibilities
From April 2015 all early years providers who deliver Government funded early education will be able to claim the early years pupil premium for three and four year old children whose parents are in receipt of one or more of the following benefits:
- Income Support
- Income-based Jobseekers Allowance
- Universal Credit
- 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 you’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
All schools can decide how best to spend this money but must report on and publicise annually how the money has been spent and what the impact has been on the achievement of the pupils