A survey of 262 school leaders found that the funding for the pupil premium was not separated out from schools’ main budgets in many cases. Half of the schools surveyed said that the pupil premium did not make any difference to the way that they work.
The pupil premium was used most commonly to pay for existing or new teaching assistants, particularly in primary schools.
While half of schools said that the extra funding was having a positive impact, few schools could provide evidence to back this up.
Just one in ten schools – all of which were in the most deprived areas - said that the premium had ‘significantly’ changed the way they worked.
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