Pupil premium: spending

Your role as governors

You're responsible for monitoring the spending of pupil premium funding to make sure it's having an impact on pupils.

It's up to your senior leadership team to decide how to spend the money.

You can monitor through:

• Asking your school leaders questions on pupil premium spending
• Having a pupil premium link governor
• If you're the link governor for pupil premium, understand everything you need to know with our course
• Receiving reports from school leaders about the pupil premium

Rules on spending

The pupil premium is designed to help raise the attainment of eligible pupils.

As long as your school can demonstrate that its spending supports this goal, it can use the money as it sees fit. However, your school shouldn't use it to provide free school meals to pupils who are entitled to them. It should cover the cost of these from its core budget allocation.

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