Pupil Premium Select Committee

The Committee has since been granted an extension in order to seek more evidence and hear from a wider range of schools, with additional hearing sessions arranged for January 2018.

The Select Committee is investigating the use of all types of Pupil Premium across the education sector in Kent. The Committee is cross party and independent from the Council’s Executive. It is gathering information via a number of hearing sessions with relevant witnesses and the collection of written submissions from experts, interested stakeholders and the wider education sector.

The Terms of Reference were agreed at the Committee’s first formal meeting on 12 October.

Pupil Premium Select Committee - Terms of Reference:

1. To contextualise the Pupil Premium (including Early Years Pupil Premium and Pupil Premium Plus) and to identify the groups of vulnerable learners who are currently supported by the Pupil Premium in Kent.
2. To assess the extent to which the Pupil Premium is currently effective in closing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers in Kent.
3. To identify best practice interventions and strategies where the Pupil Premium has been used successfully to narrow the attainment gap between vulnerable learners and their peers.
4. To recommend initiatives and strategies to improve the effectiveness of the Pupil Premium in raising the educational achievement of disadvantaged learners and in narrowing the attainment gap in Kent.

To help the Committee gather as many views on this important issue as possible, KCC would welcome any written submissions on the subject of Pupil Premium. If you would like to send information for the Committee to consider, please email select.committee@kent.gov.uk by 12 January 2018.

Once all the information has been considered, the Committee will develop a report that puts forward recommendations to KCC’s Children, Young People and Education directorate to consider and implement where possible.

You can find out more information about the Select Committee and read the published agendas here

Contact Details

Select Committee
Email: select.committee@kent.gov.uk