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10 April 2026

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pupil premium

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Earning the right to deprivation funding

…il database. They were asked to look at the impact of the pupil premium on attainment, and to see how easy it was to use the dataset. Th…

Chaminda Jayanetti

1w | School funding
News

School staff need better training to support children in care – Ofsted

… availability of external agencies”. Differences in access to pupil premium plus funding and personal education plan (PEP) processes “create…

Freddie Whittaker

12 Mar 2026 | Ofsted
News

Schools white paper: The key schools policies

… be held this summer. 18. Struggling schools to get help with pupil premium strategies New pupil premium strategy reviews will be held fo…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks

23 Feb 2026 | Schools white paper
News

New headteachers to get £15k to work where they’re ‘needed most’

…ta will replace free school meals eligibility as the trigger for pupil premium and other deprivation funding for schools under the reforms. …

Freddie Whittaker

21 Feb 2026 | Schools white paper
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Secret £1m bailout as PFI windfalls and school woes grow

…ery serious financial burden”, representing more than its “total pupil premium funding” over two years. The case highlights “how complicated…

Jack Dyson

9 Feb 2026
Opinion

Pupil premium paperwork reveals schools snub effective strategies

Every primary school publishes a pupil premium strategy. Inspectors read them. Governors scrutinise them. Leade…

Emma Dobson

30 Jan 2026 | The Research Leader
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Primary headteachers share joy and surprise at being made MBEs

…on the special education needs register, 70 per cent entitled to pupil premium and 44 per cent global majority. It's a vibrant and energetic en…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks

11 Jan 2026 | Schools
News

Internal exclusion: Reset or rejection?

…is system showed pupils, three quarters of whom are eligible for pupil premium, that “we’re not just here to punish you, we’re here to understa…

Ruth Lucas

9 Jan 2026 | Behaviour
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Identifying inclusion: Lessons for Labour from councils, charities and the sector

…efinition from special educational needs to name young people on pupil premium, those historically known to social services and those with prot…

Samantha Booth

13 Dec 2025 | Inclusion
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Huge rise in parent complaints driven by AI, headteachers warn

… Her special school has about 53 per cent of children receiving pupil premium, while many parents have “particularly low literacy levels”. …

Ruth Lucas

15 Dec 2025