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Higher pupil premium funding for schools in 2013/14 will have a significant impact on the way schools spend their budgets, according to new research from the British Educational Suppliers’ Association (BESA)

More than one third (39 per cent) of primary schools and more than half (57 per cent) of secondary schools expect to change their current spending patterns as a result of Government plans to boostPupil Premium funding to £900 per pupil in 2013/14, boosting expenditure in primary schools by up to £95 million and £103 million in secondary schools.
Schools are most likely to use the funding to finance small group support, followed by one-to-one teaching provision, while more than a quarter of primary and a third of secondary schools say thatthey expect to invest in new classroom resources.

Caroline Wright, director, BESA said, “Schools are clearly willing to invest in additional resources to support pupils’ specific needs. This is very welcome news for both pupils and the economy.”

"Teachers are best placed to know what support their pupils need and with the new freedoms given to schools, we are seeing heads making evidence-based decisions to purchase quality resources to improve teaching and learning outcomes for individual children most in need of extra help".

Encouragingly the survey of 432 English maintained schools (263 primary and 169 secondary) conducted in March 2013 found that more than half of schools have already carried out needs assessments of their pupils, and the majority of the remaining schools expect to spend part of their pupil premium allocation to assess pupil needs during 2013/14 (8 per cent primary and 15 per cent secondary