Pupil Premium
The pupil premium grant is funding to improve educational outcomes for disadvantaged pupils in state-funded schools in England.
The DfE will allocate the following amounts of PPG funding to Primary Schools and Local Authorities:
- £1,480 Pupils who are eligible for free school meals, or have been eligible in the past 6 years.
- £2,570 Pupils previously looked after by a local authority or other state care.
- £2,570 Children who are looked after by the local authority.
The grant may be spent in the following ways:
- support the quality of teaching, such as staff professional development;
- provide targeted academic support, such as tutoring; and
- tackle non-academic barriers to success in school, such as attendance, behaviour and social and emotional support.
Service pupil premium
Service pupil premium is additional funding for schools with pupils who have parents serving in the armed forces.
Pupils are eligible if they meet the following 2 criteria:
- one of their parents is serving in the regular armed forces, including pupils with a parent who is on full commitment as part of the full-time reserve service – this includes pupils with a parent who is in the armed forces of another nation and is stationed in England
- they have been registered as a ‘service child’ on any school census in the past 6 years
They would also be eligible if:
- one of their parents died whilst serving in the armed forces and the pupil receives a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme or the War Pensions Scheme
This funding is primarily to enable schools to offer pastoral support and help mitigate the negative impact of family mobility or parental deployment. It can also be used to help improve the academic progress of eligible pupils if the school deems this to be a priority.