Reform Scotland has welcomed the Pupil Equity Fund (PEF) – which gives cash directly to schools to spend on closing the gap between pupils from richer and poorer backgrounds – but flagged up the “highly prescriptive” guidance that accompanies it.
Reform Scotland’s Commission on School Reform said the intention behind the publication of the guidance document was laudable in aiming to assist schools with relatively large sums of money per-pupil.
“However... the document is full of specific directions to schools about what they may and may not do... in this sense its tone is closer to what one might have expected from a set of operational requirements,” the paper said.
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