Pupil Premium
The Government document ‘Pupil Premium 2025 to 2026: conditions of grant' gives the following information on eligibility for the Pupil Premium grant:
Ever 6 FSM
The pupil premium for 2025 to 2026 will include pupils recorded in the January 2018 school census who are known to have been eligible for free school meals (FSM), as well as those first known to be eligible at January 2024.
Children adopted from care or who have left care
The pupil premium for 2025 to 2026 will include pupils recorded in the January 2025 school census and alternative provision census who were looked after by an English or Welsh local authority immediately before being adopted, or who left local authority care on a special guardianship order or child arrangements order (previously know as a residence order). These are collectively referred to as post-LAC in these conditions of grant.
Ever 6 service child
For the purposes of these grant conditions, ever 6 service child means a pupil recorded in the January 2025 school census who was eligible for the service child premium since the January 2014 census as well as those recorded as a service child for the first time on the January 2020 school census.
The Pupil Premium Strategy Statement for 2025-2026 can be found on the document page.