According to the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), the £6,000 average funding allocated to primary schools, through the government’s "recovery premium", has been wiped out for many schools due to changes in the way the government calculates the number of children who are eligible for pupil premium funding.
While schools normally report the number of eligible pupils to the government in January, for the 2020/21 academic year this information was collected in October.
This means any children who became eligible for the pupil premium between October and January will not receive any extra funding until next year, the NAHT warns.
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