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<p>The pupil premium is additional funding that schools are allocated to help improve
the progress and attainment of disadvantaged pupils - those who have been in receipt
of benefits-based free school meals at any point in the last 6 years, are currently
looked-after or who have left care through adoption or other specified routes.</p><p>Schools
have flexibility over how they spend the pupil premium, as they are best placed to
understand and respond to the needs of their disadvantaged pupils. The department
does not routinely collect information from schools about their expenditure of pupil
premium funding on particular activities.</p>
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