Pupil Premium+

Pupil Premium funding is available to pupils, from Reception to Year 11.

The school should, record information on the October school census, and the school will receive the funding in the following financial year, along with the FSM pupil premium.

All pupils with:

• Pupil Premium is available for children who have had the following orders:
  • adoption
  • special guardianship
  • child arrangements (previously known as a residence order)

All the three options specified above must have been in local authority care for 1 day or more

Pupil premium funding is available to:

• schools maintained by the local authority, including schools for children with special educational needs or disabilities or pupil referral units (PRUs), for children who can’t go to a mainstream school
• academies and free schools, including specialist SEND provision and alternative provision (AP) , for children who struggle to attend a mainstream school
• voluntary-sector AP, with local authority agreement
• non-maintained special schools (NMSS), for children with special educational needs as approved by the Secretary of State for Education under section 342 of the Education Act 1992

For schools to access the funding, parents and guardians must declare their child’s adoptive, SGO or CAO status directly to the school before the school completes the census.

Parents and guardians must provide evidence, for example, a copy of the legal order, or a confirmation letter from the local authority which placed their child. Parents should not need to declare their child’s status again until their child changes school.

This money is not ring-fenced for one child, so it allows the school flexibility to ensure maximum impact for this cohort of children. The school can make the final decision, but it would be civil, if the decision is made after parental consultation.

Designated teachers or persons should encourage the parents and guardians’ involvement in deciding how the PP+ is used to support their child, then parents or guardians will be aware of its use.

This might be done at an information-sharing meeting with all parents, or on an individual basis.

Having meetings with the Designated Teacher, is a very useful and effective way of discussing the progress and needs of the child as well as discussing (if appropriate) the use of PP+ funding.

Information on what a school uses all its Pupil Premium funding for, should be available on their website or ask the school’s Designated Teacher for further information in the first instance.

New statutory guidance: Pupil Premium.