The ‘Pupil Premium Plus’ will be worth £1,900 per pupil each year for all looked-after children and will be funded from the first day children are in care. It will come into force in April 2014.
Previously children in care only became eligible for the funding when they had been looked-after for six months.
The funding is more than double that currently available for children in care.
The pupil premium, introduced in 2011, gives schools extra funding with the aim of closing the attainment gap between children from disadvantaged families and their peers. Children from low-income families and children in care are eligible and it is worth £900 per pupil in 2013-14.
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