How to monitor your school's pupil premium report

25 April 2022: we reviewed this article to make sure it reflects the conditions of grant for 2022 to 2023. There have been no changes to your reporting requirements.

Your school must use the DfE's templates to publish its strategy statement

This is separate to its report to you - there are still no requirements for the format in which your school leaders report to you on the pupil premium. 

The templates your school must use to publish its strategy statement, along with sample statements to help it fill them out, are available here.

Your school must fill its statement template out for 2022-23 by the end of December 2022. The DfE will perform monitoring checks on a sample of schools' published reports.  

In 2022-23, as with the previous year, your school must show how its spending strategy is informed by research evidence, referring to a range of sources, including the toolkit published