English Language: Pupils

(asked on 13th April 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what (a) financial and (b) teaching support is offered to schools with significant numbers of New to English pupils.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 24th April 2017

The Government is committed to ensuring equity of opportunity so that all pupils, irrespective of background, can fulfil their potential.

In the current system, whether a school receives any English as an additional language (EAL) funding, how long for, and how much they receive, all depends on the particular local funding formula.

By contrast, under our proposals for a national funding formula, any qualifying pupil will be funded at the same rate. The EAL factor will include any pupil who entered the state education system in the last three years and is recorded on the census as having a first language other than English.

As in the current system, under a national funding formula, schools will continue to be responsible for deciding how to use their total funding allocation in order to support all their pupils.

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