The Pupil Premium Grant (PPG) is allocated directly by the Education and Skills Funding Authority (EFSA) to Academies and Free Schools and to Local Authorities (LAs) to pass on to its maintained schools and non-maintained special schools (NMSS) for children entitled to free school meals, Looked After Children (LAC) and those whose parents are serving in the armed forces (service children) up to year 11.

Looked-after children (LAC) are defined in the Children Act 1989 as one who is in the care of, or provided with accommodation by, an English local authority. For the Robert Ogden School, these are usually the pupils resident at Clayton Croft Children’s Home.

Local authorities may allocate PPG to other alternative provision settings or use the grant to spend specifically on additional educational support to raise the standard of attainment for the eligible pupils. LAs must consult the non-mainstream settings about how the LA uses PPG to support children educated in non-mainstream settings. For example, they can use the grant towards the fees charged by the school.

Where children are educated at an Independent School such as at Robert Ogden, it is classed as an alternative provision setting, so the PPG is sent to the local authority of that child, not to the school. Where the PPG has been allocated because the pupil is a Looked After Child (LAC), the LAC premium must be managed by the local authority’s designated Virtual School Head (VSH). Local authorities are expected to release these payments as soon as possible to schools, but they may choose to retain a portion of it to fund activities that will benefit a group, or all, of the authority’s looked-after children.

The VSH should ensure there are arrangements in place to discuss how the child will benefit from pupil premium funding with the designated teacher in the child’s education setting.

We have been informed by most LA’s who place pupils with us that the PPG they receive from the Education and Skills Funding Authority will be used towards the school's fees. Currently, the school receives PPG from only two LAs out of the 17 who have placed  pupils at the school.

We do not publish very specific details on this site of where the allocated PPG is spent as this might identify the pupil concerned.