Agenda item

That the draft Looked After Children Pupil Premium Policy be adopted by the Council.

The Commissioner for Education & Children introduced a report seeking approval for a policy which would determine how the Council would allocate and manage the pupil premium for looked after children grant.

The grant funding was used to improve the educational outcomes of looked after children and the policy took account of a number of changes to the way the funding would operate in future with more resources per child, more children attracting the premium and management by the new Virtual School Head (VSH) appointed by the authority.  Members welcomed the fact that the new national guidance and local policy would give the authority, through the VSH, more control over how the premium was used for each child to ensure the additional funding was improving their educational outcomes.  The Cabinet agreed the policy as set out in Appendix A to the report.

Resolved –  That the draft Looked After Children Pupil Premium Policy be adopted by the Council.