Pupil Premium: Coronavirus

(asked on 25th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupil premium applications have been received since the closure of schools in England as a result of the covid-19 outbreak; and what effect those applications have had on the number of children eligible for free school meals.


Answered by
Vicky Ford Portrait
Vicky Ford
This question was answered on 30th June 2020

The allocation of pupil premium funding to schools does not involve an application process. It is based on the number of pupils on roll at the time of the January school census who have been registered for benefits-based free school meals at any point in the last six years; or are currently looked after; or have left care through adoption, a special guardianship order or child arrangements order.

Details of pupil premium allocations to schools in the financial year 2020-21 are available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pupil-premium-allocations-and-conditions-of-grant-2020-to-2021.

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