The Pupil Premium Grant (PPG)
& The Sutton Trust Analysis of
best practice usage
Virtual School for Looked After
Children
Background to the PPG
• Announced Dec. 2010
• Nationally, £1.25 billion 2012-13
• For ‘pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds to
ensure they benefit from the same opportunities
as pupils from less deprived families’ (DfE Ministerial
Statement)
• Aimed at underachieving groups i.e. FSM, LAC
(for @ least 6 mths.), Services’ children
• Aims to:
 Increase social mobility
 Enable pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds
to go to top Unis
 Reduce attainment gaps (Sutton Trust)
Background to the PPG
• Currently £600 p.a.
• Above equates to 2 → 3 teacher days per pupil
per year
• Statutory school age
• Mainstream & special schools
• Funding via LA
• Academies also funded via LA
Background to the PPG for Looked After
Children
Local discretion on application, therefore:
• LAC PPG distributed termly (to account for
mobility)
• Element of PPG (Short Stay
Schools/independent providers) to be used
centrally
• Usage monitored via the Personal Education
Plan (PEP) & Quality Practice Check
• ‘Our’ children out of county – passported via
receiving LA & vice versa
Impact of PPG – how additional
resources can affect outcomes
• Clear linkage between expenditure & pupil
learning hard to ascertain
• Sutton Trust has developed a ‘Toolkit of
Strategies to Improve Learning’
• This aims to identify areas of expenditure
‘which offer better bet than others’
• Combines evidence from other research
analyses
Assessing impact against cost
Impact
Cost
Strategies that have high impact but low
cost
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Effective feedback
Meta cognition strategies
Peer learning
Assessment for Learning
Homework
Parent or carer involvement
ICT
Strategies that have high impact but also
high cost
• Early intervention
• One-to-one tuition
Relating these findings to practice &
influence
• Can you use PPG on the more ‘cost
effective’ additional resources?
• Ways of sharing this learning?
• Can you offer a forum for sharing good
practice usage of the PPG?
• What are your further training needs?
Contact information
Christopher Tyler
Headteacher, Virtual School for Looked After
Children, Staffordshire
[email protected]
01785 854195