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<p>There are 2 types of pupil premium plus funding. Pupil premium plus for looked-after
children is managed by the local authority’s Virtual School Head, and is separate
from wider pupil premium plus funding for previously looked-after children. Pupil
premium plus for previously looked-after children is paid directly to schools, and
it is for them to decide how it should be used to raise the attainment of all eligible
pupils.</p><p>Guidance for schools on the use of pupil premium plus can be found here:
<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designated-teacher-for-looked-after-children</a>.
The guidance states that, for previously looked-after children,<em> ‘</em>the designated
teacher should work closely with their parents and guardians as they will understand
their child’s needs better than anyone else. The designated teacher should make themselves
known to parents as someone they can talk to about issues affecting their child’s
education’. The guidance is clear that parents and guardians ‘should be encouraged
to participate in discussions about their child’s support needs and strategies to
meet identified needs, including how pupil premium plus should be used to support
their child’.</p><p> </p><p>School Information Regulations and Funding Agreements
require schools to publish their strategy for using the pupil premium. The requirements
include identifying barriers to learning and setting out how these will be addressed.
As individual needs will differ, the strategy that should cover both the pupil premium
for economically disadvantaged pupils and pupil premium plus for looked-after and
previously looked-after pupils needs to be flexible and responsive, and can allow
funding to be combined to increase its effectiveness.</p><p> </p><p>Owing to the low
numbers of looked-after and previously looked-after pupils in schools, it would not
be appropriate, nor permitted under data protection law, to publish separate strategy
details that could identify them.</p><p> </p><p>We have given a commitment in our
concluding publication on the Children in Need review to work in conjunction with
the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care and the Education Endowment Foundation
to support schools in making best use of pupil premium, including pupil premium plus,
to identify and bring together best practice for the education of the most disadvantaged
children.</p>
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