Recovery Premium: £145 per eligible pupil

The recovery premium grant was part of the government’s package of funding to support pupils whose education had been impacted by coronavirus (COVID-19).

It was a time-limited grant providing over £300m of additional funding for state-funded schools in the 2021 to 2022 academic year and £1bn across the 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024 academic years.

It was focused on pupil premium eligible pupils and pupils in specialist settings such as special schools, special units and pupil referral units (PRUs). This is because of the additional impact of the pandemic on these students.

However, schools could use it to deliver evidence-based approaches for supporting any pupil based on an assessment of individual need. The recovery premium was allocated using the same data as the pupil premium. This means the following pupils attracted recovery premium funding to schools:

Pupil eligibility

Recovery premium allocations for mainstream schools was based on pupil premium eligibility. This included:

• pupils who were eligible for free school meals (FSM), including eligible children of families who had no recourse to public funds (NRPF)
• pupils who have been eligible for FSM at any point in the last 6 years
• children looked after by local authorities, referred to as looked-after children (LAC), and children previously looked after by local authorities, referred to as previously looked-after children (PLAC)