The Virtual School Headteacher receives £2570 per year of Pupil Premium Plus funding for each statutory school age Child Looked After. There is an allocation of £300 per year for Early Years CLA and post 16 CLA.
A college receives a bursary of around £1200 for post 16 young people in care, that should be used to support purchase of learning resources and travel to college.
A school receives £2570 for every Children Previously Looked After recorded on the school census. The school must allocate this funding to support the needs of Children Previously Looked After. Eligibility for pupil premium plus has been extended to children adopted from outside of England.
Use of funding
The Virtual School Headteacher has responsibility to direct the use the Pupil Premium Plus (PPP) funding to promote the educational outcome of Children Looked After.
The Designated Teacher makes an application for Pupil Premium Plus funding by allocating funding to relevant SMART targets in the PEP meeting. There is up to £700 PPP funding available at each statutory school age PEP, and further funding requests can be submitted to the Virtual School Headteacher.
Appropriate uses of PPP include:
- Books / dictionaries / revision guides
- Specialist learning equipment (eg a camera for GCSE photography)
- Academic tutoring
- Mentoring
- Targeted interventions for literacy and numeracy
- Targeted interventions to support attendance
- Social emotional learning and behaviour interventions
- Educational therapy or psychology services
- Staff training
Sutton Virtual School will not authorise PPP funding to be used for the following:
- Base education costs (resident LA to fund)
- Uniform (carer to fund)
- Transport and travel (carer to fund / SEND if EHCP and meet criteria for application)
- Costs covered by EHCP or SEND Support notional budget (SEND or school to fund)
- Laptops (social care provide to all Sutton CLA)
- Stationary eg paper, pens (carer to fund)
- Lessons / sessions at weekends or outside school eg swimming lessons, football club, holiday activities, breakfast clubs (carer or social care to fund)