What is Pupil Premium Funding?

Pupil premium funding is distributed to eligible schools based on the following criteria:

• Pupils currently eligible for free school meals or who have been eligible at any point in the past six years (known as Ever 6 FSM).
• Children previously under the care of a local authority or in other forms of state care, including those adopted from state care or its equivalent outside England and Wales.

It is important to note that pupil premium funding is not a personal budget for individual pupils. Schools are not required to spend the funding exclusively on pupils who meet the eligibility criteria. Instead, it can be used:

• To support other pupils with identified needs, such as those who have or have had a social worker or who act as carers.
• For whole-class interventions that also benefit non-disadvantaged pupils.

Pupil premium funding is also allocated to local authorities based on:

• The number of looked-after children supported by the local authority.
• Pupils meeting the eligibility criteria who attend independent schools, where the local authority covers full tuition fees.

Children who qualify for free school meals

Your child may qualify if you have any of these incomes:

• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• The guaranteed part of Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit (as long as your annual gross income is £16,190 or less and you don’t get Working Tax Credit)
• Working Tax Credit run-off after you come off Working Tax Credit
• Universal Credit that you applied for on, or after, 1 April 2018. As long as your household income is less than £7,400 a year after tax, not including any benefits

Children who receive these benefits themselves instead of through a parent or guardian can also qualify for free school meals.

Your child may qualify if you are an asylum seeker.

Children who are younger than the compulsory age for starting school but in full-time education can also get free school meals.

To check if you are eligible please follow the link and apply https://apply.cloudforedu.org.uk/ofsm/sims-trafford