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Schools could miss free meals cash due to count change

BBC News By Sean Coughlan Published image captionThere are warnings that school funding measures could miss rising levels of need in the pandemic Schools in England face a significant cash loss from a change in the date for counting disadvantaged pupils eligible for extra support, says the Education Policy Institute. The think tank warns using an earlier cut-off date to count free school meal pupils will miss many who have since become eligible in the pandemic. This could lower schools allocations of pupil premium funding. The Department for Education says an earlier date helps budget planning. But head teachers have raised grave concerns that the change in timing will mean schools serving some of the poorest pupils will miss out on millions in funding, despite rising levels of need.

Schools don t have enough time to prepare for pupils return to classes, warn unions

Primary and nursery schools fear they will face a scramble to prepare for pupils’ return to classes after the Executive dithered on the issue once again. Ministers decided that primary years one to three could remain in school beyond March 22, when they were originally scheduled to revert to remote learning to allow exam years 12 to 14 to return to lessons. But any decision on the remaining pupils will not be made until the next review of lockdown, due on Tuesday. Dr Graham Gault, the president of the National Association of Head Teachers, said it was no surprise that schools had again been left in the dark.

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