Cwmbran’s three secondary schools will share over half a million pounds from the Welsh Government’s Pupil Deprivation Grant.
This week the government published a report evaluating the impact of the grant that was first launched in 2012.
“The grant was launched in 2012 and provides additional funding to schools based on the number of pupils on their roll eligible for Free School Meals or who are Looked After Children.”
Over the next two years the Cwmbran schools will recieve:
2015/16 £126,000
2016/17 £138,000
2015/16£178,500
2016/17 £195,500
2015/16 £152,250
2016/17 £166,750
Schools choose how to spend the cash on work or projects to close the attainment gap in their classrooms.
Aled Roberts AM, the Welsh Liberal Democrat shadow education minister spoke to Cwmbran Life outside the National Assembly for Wales.
A recent report from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission has called for changes to help pupils from poor backgrounds after research showed better-off pupils are twice as likely as those on free school meals to get five good GCSEs.
The increase in the Pupil Deprivation Grant is part of the Welsh Government’s plans to tackle this problem.
Note
This blog post was filmed, researched and written as part of the Hyperlocal #DemDef on Thursday 23 October 2014 organised by the National Assembly for Wales and Cardiff University’s Centre for Community Journalism.
Thanks to everyone involved. It was a good, fun and well-organised event. Primary schools are also getting grants but it was easier to just do a story on three secondary schools.
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