Larraine Cooper The Larian Consultancy Limited Pupil Premium – Making & Costing The Case

1. Larraine Cooper The Larian Consultancy Limited Pupil Premium – Making & Costing The Case t: 01462 730532 e: larraine.cooper@larian-consultancy.co.uk

2. KEY FACTS Basic principles and ground rules Statutory requirements Accountability requirements

3. NARROWING ATTAINMENT GAPS FOR VULNERABLE GROUPS • Boys or girls • Children with SEN and those who are disabled • Pupils from low-income backgrounds • Pupils where their prior attainment may be different • Children who do not have English as their first language (of different ethnicity) and asylum seekers

4. NARROWING ATTAINMENT GAPS FOR VULNERABLE GROUPS • Gypsy Roma and Traveller Children • Children whose lives are in turmoil • Looked after children • Service children • Children who are young carers • And, various others

5. OVERARCHING PRINCIPLES • Funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most. • Eligibility • Children who are/have been eligible for Free School Meals in previous 6 years • Children looked after for > 6 months • Schools will not be told what to do with money • Schools will be watched on how they use it

6. FUNDING • Currently £900 • Delegated to schools via local authorities/EFA for mainstream provision • Held centrally for maintained special schools and PRUs funding by LAs • LAs decide whether to delegate to schools or hold back and manage centrally

7. FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF PUPIL PREMIUM-THE MUSTS! • Expenditure must be PLANNED • Demonstrable benefit to disadvantaged pupils and school community as a whole • Provide value for money proportionate to pupil attainment and progress • Additional funding may be available on application from the Education Endowment Foundation Trust • To incubate ideas • To significantly advance existing projects/organisations

8. PUPIL PREMIUM: STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS • Must be spent for educational benefit of • pupils registered at that school or their families • registered at other maintained schools and • on community facilities for those who live or work in school’s locality • Not ring fenced • Must demonstrably improve performance of pupils • NOT part of schools’ budget share and NOT counted for the purpose of calculating the Minimum Funding Guarantee.

9. ACCOUNTABILITY REQUIREMENTS

10. “Schools will now be held to account for: the attainment of their disadvantaged pupils the progress made by their disadvantaged pupils the in-school gap in attainment between disadvantaged pupils and their peers” DfE Press Release 2 July 2013

11. How schools maximised the impact of their spending Targeting the funding well from the outset Effective intervention classes and individual tuition to improve achievement in English and mathematics Ensuring that teaching assistants help to raise standards Minimising barriers to learning and achievement Meeting individuals’ particular needs The active involvement of governors Effective monitoring and evaluation of the impact of spending Carefully planned summer schools with a clear purpose OFSTED Pupil Premium Report

12. Carefully ringfenced funding so that they always spent it on the target group of pupils Used achievement data frequently to check whether interventions or techniques were working and made adjustments accordingly, rather than just using the data retrospectively to see if something had worked Were able, through careful monitoring and evaluation, to demonstrate the impact of each aspect of their spending on the outcomes for pupils FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTABILITY SUCCESS FACTORS – OFSTED REPORT

13. Clarity about the intended impact of the spending Have a clear audit trail for where the funding had been spent Compared their performance to national data Knew exactly what the desired outcomes were for each aspect of work that they were planning to fund through the Pupil Premium FINANCIAL AND ACCOUNTABILITY SUCCESS FACTORS – OFSTED REPORT

14. Brought together all the evidence available to make judgements about what was going well and what needed to change including data, pupils’ work, observations, case studies, and pupils’ and staff’s views did not wait until the end of an initiative or intervention to see if it was working made changes to their planned strategies according to what they learned from their monitoring and evaluation information took as rigorous an approach to evaluating the impact of pastoral interventions as they did to academic ones. those related to attendance, building confidence, improving behaviour, working with parents WHERE SCHOOLS MONITORED & EVALUATED IMPACT WELL THEY

15. EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/toolkit/

16. ROLE OF THE EEF • Funded by DfE with grant £125m • Purpose to support schools to use evidence based decision making • To identify and embed what works • To identify and drop what doesn’t work • EEF work has identified • Gap increases for disadvantaged children as school life progresses • EAL children have now moved on through previous effective interventions • White working class boys are now at higher risk

17. FINANCIAL KPIS OF INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS/INITIATIVES

18. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS • Schools to report how they spend Pupil Premium for each ACADEMIC year • DfE recommends reporting on known funding allocation for the FINANCIAL YEAR, then update figures as they become available • Underspends can be carried forward

19. MAINTENANCE OF RECORDS • No prescriptive requirements • OUTCOMES reporting is key • No requirement to maintain FORMAL records but considered good practice • Transferring money to separate account not required but considered good practice • Use of money subject to separate auditing procedures

20. PUBLISHING INFORMATION ONLINE • Schools must publish information on the PPG on their website • information on the funding received for the current academic year • details of how it will be spent • details on how the previous academic year’s allocation was spent must also be included. • parents and others are made fully aware of the progress and attainment of pupils covered by the premium • If a parent does not have access to the Internet, a copy of published information must be provided at no charge to those parents

21. CAUTIONARY TALES! • Pupil Premium is effectively PROJECT finance • Schools will be watched on how they use it • NOT part of school’s budget share • NOT counted for MFG

22. LET’S LOOK AT AN EXAMPLE SCHOOL

23. LONDON PRIMARY WITH MEDIUM FSM

24. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF PUPIL PREMIUM WAS DISCONTINUED?

25. KEY MESSAGES FOR SBMs • Pupil Premium is PROJECT finance • Expenditure on Pupil Premium projects should match income or • Be rolled over for use on Pupil Premium projects next year • Consider the fixed costs aspects of any Pupil Premium expenditure • Work closely with education leaders for clear educational outcomes for EACH Pupil Premium project • Be mindful it could be discontinued

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