Management Information Sheet
Deprivation Pupil Premium and Historical Free School Meals Eligibility (Ever FSM 6)
The Pupil Premium for 2012-13 is being allocated to local authorities and schools with pupils on roll in January 2012 that are known to have been eligible for free school meals (FSM)
at any time in the last six years. Each of these pupils will attract £600. Schools will have the freedom to spend the Premium, which is additional to the underlying
schools budget, in a way they think will best support the raising of attainment for these pupils.
FSM eligibility in the previous six years has been determined by those pupils recorded on the January 2012 School/Pupil Referral Unit and Alternative Provision Census who were recorded as known to be eligible for FSM on any of the censuses since Summer 2006. The Department for Education (DfE) have used the National Pupil Database (NPD) to map the history of FSM eligibility for each pupil on the January collection to determine the actual numbers of ‘Ever FSM’ pupils eligible for the Pupil Premium. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that schools will hold a full history of the FSM eligibility data for all of their current pupils and therefore will not be in a position to know which of their pupils are ‘Ever FSM’ (even if all the individual censuses have been retained by the school they will only contain data relating to that school and as such will not include any historical eligibility relating to pupils time spent in other schools). The DfE recognise the need to make schools aware of who their ‘Ever FSM’ pupils are and have provided an initial download of pupils' FSM histories which will then follow pupils around the system.
This download will be available in two formats: a partial CTF which can be used to update pupil records within MIS (Management Information Systems) with historical FSM eligibility and also a CSV spreadsheet for easier data analysis/manipulation. It is important that schools download their historical data from Key to Success and import it into their MIS. If this is not done, schools could lose future Pupil Premium entitlement. Once a CTF download has been obtained from Key to Success, guidance on how schools should import this into their MIS should be available from their software supplier.
Please note - the Key to Success download will be based on pupil location as at the 2011 Autumn School Census (the 2011 PRU Census and 2011 AP Census will be used for pupils from those collections). Unfortunately this means that any pupils that have joined your school since then will not be included in the standard school download. However there is a search functionality built into Key to Success to allow schools to obtain an additional download for new pupils.
Full guidance and instructions on how to download your data are in the attached document entitled ‘Download of Historical Free School Meals Eligibility’.
Pupil premium allocations will be updated in your April download from the local authority Finance Team. Any queries regarding your school budget or pupil premium allocations should be addressed to budgetshare@norfolk.gov.uk.
If you need help with you MIS please contact your software supplier helpdesk.
If you have any other queries regarding the Ever FSM 6 data item please contact the Information and Intelligence Data Collection Team:
Louise Hodgson
Telephone: 01603 222352
Email: louise.hodgson@norfolk.gov.uk
Gill Williamson
Telephone: 01603 222355
Email: gill.williamson@norfolk.gov.uk
FSM eligibility in the previous six years has been determined by those pupils recorded on the January 2012 School/Pupil Referral Unit and Alternative Provision Census who were recorded as known to be eligible for FSM on any of the censuses since Summer 2006. The Department for Education (DfE) have used the National Pupil Database (NPD) to map the history of FSM eligibility for each pupil on the January collection to determine the actual numbers of ‘Ever FSM’ pupils eligible for the Pupil Premium. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that schools will hold a full history of the FSM eligibility data for all of their current pupils and therefore will not be in a position to know which of their pupils are ‘Ever FSM’ (even if all the individual censuses have been retained by the school they will only contain data relating to that school and as such will not include any historical eligibility relating to pupils time spent in other schools). The DfE recognise the need to make schools aware of who their ‘Ever FSM’ pupils are and have provided an initial download of pupils' FSM histories which will then follow pupils around the system.
This download will be available in two formats: a partial CTF which can be used to update pupil records within MIS (Management Information Systems) with historical FSM eligibility and also a CSV spreadsheet for easier data analysis/manipulation. It is important that schools download their historical data from Key to Success and import it into their MIS. If this is not done, schools could lose future Pupil Premium entitlement. Once a CTF download has been obtained from Key to Success, guidance on how schools should import this into their MIS should be available from their software supplier.
Please note - the Key to Success download will be based on pupil location as at the 2011 Autumn School Census (the 2011 PRU Census and 2011 AP Census will be used for pupils from those collections). Unfortunately this means that any pupils that have joined your school since then will not be included in the standard school download. However there is a search functionality built into Key to Success to allow schools to obtain an additional download for new pupils.
Full guidance and instructions on how to download your data are in the attached document entitled ‘Download of Historical Free School Meals Eligibility’.
Pupil premium allocations will be updated in your April download from the local authority Finance Team. Any queries regarding your school budget or pupil premium allocations should be addressed to budgetshare@norfolk.gov.uk.
If you need help with you MIS please contact your software supplier helpdesk.
If you have any other queries regarding the Ever FSM 6 data item please contact the Information and Intelligence Data Collection Team:
Louise Hodgson
Telephone: 01603 222352
Email: louise.hodgson@norfolk.gov.uk
Gill Williamson
Telephone: 01603 222355
Email: gill.williamson@norfolk.gov.uk