FAQs: Secondary SEND

Officially, no. The Pupil Premium regulations do not require you to record spending per individual recipient, but you are required to account for how much money has come in overall, how many eligible students your school has, and what you spend the funds on.

I suggest mapping this on a simple four-column table: identified need – action taken – impact – cost. This format makes financial accounting just one part of creating an outstanding map of provision, which can be monitored and referred back to. So while you are not mandated to financially account for each individual, I would argue that best practice is to map-out identified need against action and measure of impact. If you are already doing this, all it takes is a quick meeting between the SENCO and business manager to cost each intervention and add-in financial accounting too.