Pupil premium provides schools with extra funding to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils from reception to year 11. Funding is available for:
Free School Meals:
Your child may be entitled to free school meals if:
- your annual income is less than £16,190; and
you claim Child Tax Credit (*Not Including Working Tax Credit) only; and
your child is attending a Sandwell School (if your child(ren) doesn’t attend a Sandwell School, you will need to apply to the Local Authority which your child(ren) school is in)
Your child may also qualify for free school meals if you receive any of the following benefits:
- Income Support
- Universal Credit – To qualify if you are in receipt of Universal Credit, your net earned income (after taxes and deductions ‘take home pay’) must be below £616 per month under the Universal Credit allowance you receive. This will be confirmed on your latest online Universal Credit statement when you received it. If your net earned income shows above the £616 figure you don’t qualify.
- Employment and Support Allowance (income related)
- Guaranteed Pension Credit (including Child Tax Credit)
- Income-based Jobseekers Allowance
- Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
Children adopted from care or who have left care
The pupil premium for 2018 to 2019 will include pupils recorded in the January 2018 school census and alternative provision census who were looked after by an English or Welsh local authority immediately before being adopted, or who left local authority care on a special guardianship order or child arrangements order (previously known as a residence order). These are collectively referred to as post-LAC in these conditions of grant.
Ever 6 service child
For the purposes of these grant conditions, ever 6 service child means a pupil recorded in the January 2018 school census who was eligible for the service child premium since the January 2013 census as well as those recorded as a service child for the first time on the January 2018 school census.
Pupil premium is paid to schools to assess what additional provision their pupils need. Ofsted inspections report on how schools make use of the funding and the affects on outcomes for their disadvantaged pupils. These are then reflected through data from:
- the attainment of the pupils who attractthe funding
- the progress made by these pupils
- the gap in attainment between disadvantaged pupils and their peers