Pupil Premium Spend- Information for Parents
Pupil premium funding is available to both mainstream and non-mainstream schools, such as special schools and pupil referral units. It is paid to schools according to the number of pupils who have been:
- registered as eligible for free school meals at any point in the last 6 years
- been in care for 6 months or longer
Headteachers and school governing bodies are accountable for the impact of pupil premium funding in the following ways:
- performance tables, which show the learning and progress of disadvantaged pupils as shown by outcomes data
- requiring schools to publish details online each year the level of pupil premium funding received by the school
- how leaders and governors have spent the pupil premium, the rationale for this spending and the impact it is having on pupil achievement
- the Ofsted inspection framework, where inspectors focus on the attainment of pupil groups, and in particular those who attract the pupil premium