Primary schools are given a pupil premium for:

• Children in Reception to Year 6 who are, or have ever been, entitled to free school meals based on their family income: £1455 per pupil, per school year

• Children in care: £2530 per pupil, per school year

• Children previously in care who have been adopted, or who have a special guardianship order, a child arrangements order or a residence order: £2530 per pupil, per school year

• Children recorded as being from service families: £335 per pupil, per school year.

Children qualify for free school meals – and accordingly pupil premium – if you receive any of the following benefits:

• Universal credit (provided you have a net income of £7400 or less)

• Income support

• Income-based jobseekers’ allowance

• Income-related employment and support allowance

• Support under Part IV of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

• The guaranteed element of state pension credit

• Child tax credit, provided that you are not also entitled to working tax credit and have an annual gross income of £16,190 or less

These benefits have now been rolled into a single benefit, called Universal Credit.