What is Pupil Premium Plus (PP+)?
Is managed by the Virtual School Headteacher in the local authority that looks after the child. The Virtual School Headteacher works with schools to ensure that PP+ money is spent to the educational benefit of the eligible child and addresses their individual needs.
PP+ is a grant awarded to schools to help them to provide additional support and interventions to enable children we look after to make progress by overcoming barriers that might prevent them from making good academic progress. For EYFS and Post 16 specifically, please see separate booklet.
The school must choose appropriate interventions and itemize, on the termly PEP, how the PP+ will benefit the child, with detailed costings. Allocation of the funding will be linked to clear PEP targets.
How much money is allocated per child for St Helens looked after children?
This academic year the amount of money allocated is £666.66 per term. Additional funds can be requested through applications to the Virtual School. Funding per term will be released a term in arrears for all green PEPs. Funding for amber PEPs will be discussed individually.
What can the PEP money be used for?
All PP+ expenditure must be specific to the needs of the child and linked to aspirational targets to engage and raise attainment. This can include:
- 1:1 support or small group intervention. This should be focused on areas of weakness or gaps in learning with clear outcomes and its impact evaluated.
- covering part of the cost of an Educational Psychologist report.
- 1:1 intervention to re-engage a disaffected learner.
- short term 1:1 tutoring for a child on a bespoke timetable.
- extending school time e.g. after school support with homework.
- specialist software or equipment beyond that normally provided by the school.
- fees for national awards such as DofE.
- staff training to enhance understanding and how to support the children we look after.
What can the PEP money NOT be used for?
- School uniform including sports kit
- Standard textbooks or equipment
- School trips not linked to child's targets or aspirations.
- Playgroup or nursery fees.
- The cost of school lunches or packed lunch.
- School photographs.
- Transport to and from school or bus pass.
PP+ cannot be used to 'double fund' or replace funding which should have or has already been allocated to the school to support the child, eg:
- fund services that should be provided via an EHC plan.
- SEN needs where the child is on School Support. This should be covered by the school's SEN budget.
- any expenditure which is not linked clearly to one of the PEP targets.
When will PP+ NOT be paid out?
- the interventions put in place do not require any funding.
- funding has not been requested.
- the school's own funding covers the cost of the interventions.
- the PEP for that term hasn't been completed.
- the PEP is deemed not to be of high quality, through the VS Quality Assurance process.
Can you use PP+ for Extra-curricular activities?
PP+ can be used to support in school extracurricular activities if these can contribute to the outcomes above. For example, this could be used to fund music tuition for a student if this contributes towards 'Wider achievement eg, in an area in which the child is gifted and talented'.
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