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Authors Hannah Carpenter, Ivy Papps, Jo Bragg, Alan Dyson, Diane Harris and Kirstin Kerr, Liz Todd and Karen Laing - TNS BMRB, Tecis, Centre for Equity in Education, University of Manchester and Newcastle University
Published by Department for Education, July 2013
SUMMARY
Independent researchers commissioned by the Department for Education set out to identify how schools have been spending the extra funding they receive for children on free school meals and those in care, known as the pupil premium. This funding, introduced in April 2011, aims to close the attainment gap between these disadvantaged children and their peers. The report authors wanted to know how schools decide what to spend the money on, whether different types of schools spend in different ways and what the impact of the spending has been. Researchers carried out telephone surveys with 1,250 schools during autumn term 2012, with more in-depth interviews taking place at 34 schools.
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