Pupil Premium Grant (PPG)
What is the Pupil Premium Grant?
- Pupil Premium Grant for Vulnerable Pupils:
- Many schools have been allocated additional funding to support vulnerable pupils. Children in care are regarded as vulnerable and therefore should benefit from the general PPG allocated for Vulnerable children.
- LAC Pupil Premium Grant:
- Children in care continuously from 6 months prior to April of each year are eligible for the LAC PPG, This is child/young person specific targeted funding to raise their attainment
- Use of the Pupil Premium should be recorded on the PEP. See: How schools can use the LAC Pupil Premium Grant (see link below)
- Each eligible pupil is allocated £600 for 2012 to 2013
- Local authorities are responsible for distributing the Pupil Premium payments for LAC to schools and academies
- Children educated in Haringey but looked after by another local authority, will have their Pupil Premium paid through the authority that looks after them (not Haringey)
- The local authority has discretion about how the Pupil Premium is used for children educated in non-mainstream settings .
How schools can use the LAC Pupil Premium Grant
Here are some ways in which the Pupil Premium has been used by schools to raise the attainment of children in care.
- Additional reading support
- 1:1 Tuition and small group work in a range of areas: maths, literacy, science, phonics, English, reading skills, fine motor skills, speech and language etc
Please refer to the Sutton Trust Toolkit of Strategies to Improve Learning (external link) - Summary for Schools, Spending the Pupil Premium
