OFSM Information Documents
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OFSM Pupil Premium document
Pupil Premium Annual Allocations (per eligible child)
The Pupil Premium: Recommendations
Ofsted recommend that:
"Schools should continue to seek ways to encourage parents and carers to apply for free school meals where pride, stigma or changing circumstances act as barriers to its take-up"
Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills: 20 September 2012
[Source: The Pupil Premium]
Pupil Premium Annual Allocations (per eligible child)
| Financial Year: 2013/2014 | ||
Deprivation Pupil Premium (based on Ever 6 FSM) |
Service Child Pupil Premium |
Looked After Child Pupil Premium |
£953 (Primary) £900 (Secondary) |
£300 |
£953 (Primary) £900 (Secondary) |
| Financial Year: 2014/2015 | ||
Deprivation Pupil Premium (based on Ever 6 FSM) |
Service Child Pupil Premium |
Looked After Child Pupil Premium |
£1,300 (Primary) £953 (Secondary) |
£300 |
£1,900 |
Background
The Pupil Premium is additional funding given to schools so that they can support their disadvantaged pupils and close the attainment gap between them and their peers.
[Introduction from Department for Education Pupil Premium web site]
Additional information and resources are available from the Department for Education site.
Information Timeline
| January 2014 | Government announces revised Pupil Premium for the 2014/2015 financial year for Free School Meal and Looked After children. |
| January 2014 | Government announces revised Pupil Premium for the 2013/2014 financial year for Free School Meal and Looked After children. |
| December 2012 | Government announces Pupil Premium allocations for the 2013/2014 academic year - £900 per Free School Meal child, £300 per Service child and £900 per Looked After child. |
| September 2012 | Ofsted publish the report The Pupil Premium. |
| April 2012 | Pupil Premium extended to include any child who had been eligible for FSM at any point in the last six years (Ever 6 FSM) and for children whose parents were currently serving in the Armed Forces. |
| April 2011 | Pupil Premium introduced for FSM and looked after children. |
