Pupil Premium & Recovery Premium

 

You can read our Pupil Premium Statement by clicking on the link below.

Pupil Premium

Evidence shows that disadvantaged children in England generally face additional challenges in reaching their potential and often do not perform as well as other pupils at school.  At both primary and secondary levels there is an attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers, which widened between 2019 and 2022.

The pupil premium (PP) grant is funding allocated to state funded schools in England to narrow this attainment gap and improve the educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils.

PP grant funding is allocated for two separate objectives:

  • Raising the educational attainment of disadvantaged pupils of all abilities to help them reach their potential.
  • Providing support for children and young people with parents in the regular armed forces – the service pupil premium (SPP).

PP funding is not a personal budget for individual children.  All spending should take account of the specific needs of eligible pupils, support eligible pupil cohorts and deliver the objectives outlined earlier.  The grant can be spent:

  • For the benefit of pupils registered at the school that receives it.
  • For the benefit of pupils registered at other state funded schools or academies.
  • On community services whose provision furthers the benefit of pupils at the school.

Schools may use a portion of PP grant funding to support pupils who do not meet any of the PP grant eligibility criteria where they deem it beneficial to do so, e.g. to support other pupils with identified needs, such as pupils who have or have had a social worker, or pupils who act as a carer.  It can also be used for whole class approaches, for example high-quality teaching, which will also benefit non-disadvantaged pupils.

Recovery Premium

As part of the education recovery, the government has issued a time-limited grant, providing £1 billion over the 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 academic years, called the Recovery Premium.

The grant is for pupils who are eligible for income-based Free School Meals (FSM), including eligible pupils of families who have no recourse to public funds, pupils who have been eligible for FSM at any point in the last six years, and LAC and PLAC.  It builds on the Pupil Premium, to help schools deliver evidence-based approaches for supporting disadvantaged pupils.

The grant can be used for the educational benefit of pupils and on community services whose provision furthers the benefit of pupils at the school.  Academies can spend the grant on a wider cohort of pupils than those who are eligible for the funding, and it is up to schools to direct the premium to where they think the need is the greatest.

School allocations are calculated on a per-pupil basis; £145 per eligible pupil in mainstream primary schools.

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