While poorer two-year-olds and school-age children receive extra funding, three-and four-year-olds miss out
The Mind the Gap report said that this risks potentially undoing the earlier financial investment these children receive at two and is calling on the Government to stretch the pupil premium so that all disadvantaged children can benefit.
The report proposes a cost-neutral solution, which involves spreading the pupil premium for children from three to 16, instead of five to 16, by re-distributing the funding across the age group.
Barnardo’s has calculated that the estimated value of the pupil premium, which the Government has said will be worth £2.5 billion in 2014-15, will equate to around £1,320 per pupil per year.
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