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19 May 2026

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Opinion

New enrichment benchmarks will be a boost, not a burden

…ance, wellbeing and outcomes, especially for pupils eligible for Pupil Premium funding or children and young people facing financial or socio-e…

Liz RobinsonRuth Marvel

17 Nov 2025 | Opinion
Features

Auditing Austerity: How York Schools are tackling poverty

…mith Schools can support their disadvantaged children through pupil premium funding, available to those eligible for free school meals. B…

Ruth Lucas

18 Nov 2025
Opinion

Ofsted says identify children previously in care. But how?

…’d ever had a social worker in the past six years (a parallel to pupil premium eligibility regarding poverty).  They found 1 in 10 chi…

Kiran Gill

3 Nov 2025 | Inclusion
News

IncludEd Conference: Get Inclusion Ready

…ot just to think about children with SEND and those eligible for pupil premium, but also those previously known to children’s social care — and…

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23 Oct 2025 | Sponsored post
News

Schools to fork out £310m to subsidise free meals

…ls take the cash from teaching and learning budgets, such as the pupil premium. Schools have to subsidise the cost of free school meals beca…

Freddie Whittaker

2 Oct 2025
News

Labour conference 2025: Bridget Phillipson’s full speech

…w teachers recruited. The largest ever uplift in the early years pupil premium.  Turning the tide on school absence with five million more days…

Freddie Whittaker

29 Sep 2025 | Politics
News

Schools demanding parents fund laptops leave Ofsted chief ‘really shocked’ 

…e said. Laura Trott These were being supplied for those on pupil premium, but not for other students. It is understood the idea was later…

Lydia Chantler-Hicks

26 Sep 2025
Opinion

This week’s best responses from our readers

Missing! A piece of the admissions puzzle. A ministerial responsibility. Support for familes. And clarity ...

Various

26 Sep 2025 | Letters to the editor
Opinion

Ofsted’s ill-considered inclusion judgment is a poisoned chalice

… The focus on race equality was abandoned in 2012, replaced by ‘pupil premium’ pupils, and now by SEND and children known to social care. B…

Meena Wood

24 Sep 2025 | Opinion: Accountability
Opinion

Six changes Labour must make to the SEND code of practice

…e of 3.5 per cent). Half of our school’s pupils are eligible for pupil premium, and we operate a 12-place enhanced resource provision for deaf …

Jude Macdonald

24 Sep 2025 | Opinion: Inclusion