Adi Bloom reports on our pupil premium polling.

An increasing number of schools are using their funding for disadvantaged pupils to pay for essentials elsewhere, a new poll has found.

The survey of 1,607 teachers reveals that 6 per cent of teachers reported this as the main priority for their school’s pupil-premium spending, an increase of 300 per cent since last year, when the figure was two per cent.

The study also reveals that teachers are increasingly using research to inform how they spend money allocated to the poorest pupils.

The poll, conducted by the Sutton Trust charity and the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), found that the most common priority for spending, identified by 28 per cent of teachers, was early-intervention schemes. Thirteen per cent chose to spend it on one-to-one tuition for disadvantaged pupils, while 10 per cent used it to pay for additional teaching assistants.

Read the full report here.

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