{"id":2578,"date":"2015-09-09T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/educationandfamilies\/?page_id=2578"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:25:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:25:46","slug":"new-starter-pupil-premium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/education\/school-meals\/new-starter-pupil-premium\/","title":{"rendered":"New starter pupil premium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The pupil premium is additional funding given to state-funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are four elements to pupil premium:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Free school meal eligibility.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Service children.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adopted from care, special guardianship order and residence order.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Children in care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Any qualifying family that registers their eligibility (based on the free school meal criteria) will help raise pupil premium money for the school. For 2026\/27, the additional funding will be \u00a31,550 for a primary school, for each registered child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"stcpDiv\">Do I need to apply for pupil premium? (based on free school meal criteria)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You only need to apply if you have a child in reception, year 1 or year 2 and both of the following apply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You do not have an existing free school meal claim.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You are in receipt of any of the qualifying benefits (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/education\/school-meals\">School meals<\/a> for a list of the qualifying benefits).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to apply<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/oneonline.devon.gov.uk\/CCSCitizenPortal_LIVE\/Account\/Login?ReturnUrl=%2fCCSCitizenPortal_live\" rel=\"noopener\">Citizen Portal<\/a>&nbsp;is the quickest and easiest way to apply and will result in you getting an instant decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parents and carers can also ring the Education Helpline on <a href=\"tel:03451551019\">0345 155 1019<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pupil premium is additional funding given to state-funded schools in England to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":630,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2578","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 18:21:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74016,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2578\/revisions\/74016"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}