Schools receive different amounts of funding based on how many pupils are eligible. Do they spend their money effectively?

Is Pupil Premium effective?

– Barriers towards the Pupil Premium funding

Are there any articles or research that has been done to show if the pupil premium funding has made an impact on disadvantaged pupils?

 

– Are schools using PP effectively?

Schools receive different amounts of funding based on how many pupils are eligible. Do they spend their money effectively? What is effective and what is not? Is there any research to back this? (The EEF pupil premium guidance – how to use the funding effectively)

Is there anything they should be spending their money on to help close the attainment gap?

What are schools focusing their funding on – technology, teaching staff, extra tuition etc.