13.05.13
Gove calls for pupil premium to be protected
Funding to help the most disadvantaged pupils should be protected from cuts during the next Spending Review, education secretary Michael Gove has urged.
The pupil premium is paid to schools for each student who is eligible for free school meals, or who has been in care for more than six months continuously. Schools must be able to show how the funding is being used to help children from low income families.
The premium will be increased to £900 per pupil in 2014-15, but Ofsted warned in February that some schools in England are not spending the extra money effectively.
Gove told the Andrew Marr show: “I'm fighting hard to ensure that the budget priorities that we have, particularly making sure that we can protect spending for schools and spending for the most disadvantaged children, is insulated from the necessary economies that we need to make.”
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