pupil premium plus coming in for nursery age children next April?

[clangermum]

Can someone explain how pupil premium plus works between nursery and Reception transfer? If it comes online next April, at which point my dd will be eligible (adopted from care), at that point she will have one term left at nursery before she goes into Reception (elsewhere, the nursery and school aren't linked).

So if the payment starts to nursery in April, do they get it for the whole year, including the two terms she's left and gone to Reception - and she starts in Reception and has to wait for two terms before it kicks in for school?

btw our other children are eligible and their schools get it, so we're used to the procedure (although same thing goes for transitioning from primary to secondary - does it go with the child or does primary get two terms worth after the child has moved on?)

Hope someone knows!

[tethersend]

Assuming it will be managed in the same way, it should be paid By the DFE to LAs in quarterly instalments. LAs then manage the funding and decide when to pass it on to the schools they fund. Education Funding Agency pays the premium directly to academies and free schools.

Schools receive funding for pupils who are recorded on the January School Census in the following financial year. So pupils recorded as adopted or post-LAC on the January 2014 School Census will qualify for premium funding from April 2014 to March 2015 (i.e. 2014-15 financial year).

Parents and guardians currently need to self-declare again if their child moves school. They need to self-declare to the new school before the next January School Census to ensure that the school can attract the Pupil Premium funding to which it is entitled.

I have not heard of any changes in the way it will be managed in the next financial year, but that doesn't mean that there aren't going to be any!

[clangermum]

Thanks tethersend!

[snozzlemaid]

AFAIK it will be paid along with the 3/4 year nursery education funding. So the nursery etc will receive an extra 50something pence an hour for any child that qualifies.
So it will move to the school when the child does.

[Maiyakat]

Does anyone know if this applies to private nurseries? (Nursery is attached to an independent school if that makes a difference).

[HappySunflower]

50p an hour?
What are early years settings expected to do with that, I wonder?

[OddBoots]

50p an hour doesn't sound like much but that is £7.50 a week for a 15h funded child so that might buy an hour a week one-to-one with a member of staff working on their particular needs. Or if you have several children attracting the funding then maybe a group of 3 or 4 with a specialist such as a sign language or music teacher (both of which have been shown to help a range of areas of development and confidence).

[clangermum]

Not sure how it works with indie settings. I would hope if the nursery is attracting the 15 hour/ week state funding, the same would apply for them getting the PPP but haven't got experience. I don't see why they wouldn't though.

On a slightly different note, we've found if your child is at an indie special school (talking older child here) funded by the LEA (because the state one can't meet their needs, for example), some LEAs take the PPP because they reason they are already spending 'extra' so they deduct the PPP from the fees they pay the school. School never sees it.

Makes me wonder if there will be a ruling at some stage over this.