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Service Premium

What is the Service Pupil Premium?

 

The Department for Education introduced the Service Pupil Premium (SPP) in recognition of the specific challenges children from service families face and as part of the commitment to delivering the armed forces covenant.

State schools, academies and free schools in England, which have children of service families in school years Reception to Year 11, can receive the SPP funding. It is designed to assist the school in providing the additional support that these children may need and is currently worth £340 per service child who meets the eligibility criteria.

 

Eligibility criteria

 

Pupils are eligible for the SPP if they meet the following criteria:

  • One of their parents is serving in the regular armed forces.

  • They have been registered as a ‘service child’ on the January school census at any point since 2015.

  • One of their parents died whilst serving in the armed forces and the pupil receives a pension under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme or the War Pensions Scheme.

  • Pupils with a parent who is on full commitment as part of the full-time reserve service are classed as service children.

 

The purpose of the Service Pupil Premium

 

We receive the SPP so that we can offer mainly pastoral support during challenging times and to help mitigate the potential negative impact on service children of family mobility or parental deployment.

Mobility is when a service family is posted from one location to another, including overseas and within the UK. Deployment is when a service person is serving away from home for a period of time. This could be a 6 to 9 month tour of duty, a training course or an exercise which could last for a few weeks.

We are looking for a 1:1 Learning Support Assistant working in the mornings and a Supervisor Cleaner. Please see our vacancies page for further information
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