Change to FSM?

Schools Week are reporting that family income data will replace free school meals eligibility as the trigger for pupil premium and other deprivation funding for schools.

Ministers have indicated that they were reviewing how the pupil premium should be allocated.  Currently pupil premium funding is paid to schools for every child eligible for free school meals or who has been eligible at any point in the previous six years.

Schools Week are reporting that the plans “…were buried in a long Treasury report.”  It appears that the change is likely to use income data rather than free school meal claims.

The government is anxious that the funding goes to those who need it the most.