Role and responsibilities
You need to hold senior leaders to account for:
- How they spend the pupil premium – they must now be using the Department for Education's menu of approaches (see the document titled 'Using pupil premium: guidance for school leaders')
- The impact of spending on targeted groups
- The attainment and progress of eligible pupils compared with others
Make sure you're familiar with the pupil premium
You need to know:
- What it is
- How it's calculated and allocated
- Which groups of pupils attract the premium
- How it can be spent
If you're unsure, use our pupil premium course to get up to scratch. As well as covering the basics like what it is and who's eligible to receive funding, it also dives deeper into how to monitor the premium.
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