FOI Request - Pupil Equity Funding

Request 101003270160

In your local authority can I get the breakdown of pupil equity funding spend for the past five financial years?

1. Can you provide the total of funding received and funding spent?

By breakdown I am looking for where the pupil equity funding was spent? i.e. on what projects.

The past five financial years:
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
20218-2019

Response 10-04-2023

The response to your request can be found  

A range of projects were supported using PEF funding.  A PEF 5-year Impact Report was produced (to 2020) summarising PEF Impact.  It was reported to our Education Committee and can be found on:

https://moray.cmis.uk.com/moray/Document.ashx?czJKcaeAi5tUFL1DTL2UE4zNRBcoShgo=3ePNW4q0njrJRJhYGEcf8FYaHtYWNWrlMan43MeMvDfU2%2BNg%2FETz8A%3D%3D&rUzwRPf%2BZ3zd4E7Ikn8Lyw%3D%3D=pwRE6AGJFLDNlh225F5QMaQWCtPHwdhUfCZ%2FLUQzgA2uL5jNRG4jdQ%3D%3D&mCTIbCubSFfXsDGW9IXnlg%3D%3D=hFflUdN3100%3D&kCx1AnS9%2FpWZQ40DXFvdEw%3D%3D=hFflUdN3100%3D&uJovDxwdjMPoYv%2BAJvYtyA%3D%3D=ctNJFf55vVA%3D&FgPlIEJYlotS%2BYGoBi5olA%3D%3D=NHdURQburHA%3D&d9Qjj0ag1Pd993jsyOJqFvmyB7X0CSQK=ctNJFf55vVA%3D&WGewmoAfeNR9xqBux0r1Q8Za60lavYmz=ctNJFf55vVA%3D&WGewmoAfeNQ16B2MHuCpMRKZMwaG1PaO=ctNJFf55vVA%3D

Case Study examples relating to PEF spending are also provided within Section 7.  

In addition, during the Covid-19 pandemic years following, schools has some flexibility over PEF spending particularly due to ongoing pandemic challenges including two national lockdowns requiring move to remote learning.  Schools continue with PEF plans this year and support a range of interventions including:

• Literacy Interventions
• Numeracy Interventions
• HWB Interventions
• Wellbeing and Nurture Interventions/resources
• Additional staffing resource allocation for targeted supports in small groups/1:1:  examples include additional Pupil Support Assistant time, Inclusion Project Coordinators, Pupil Support Workers, PT Raising Attainment/Equity/Achievement
• Outdoor Learning resources and support
• Counselling/Wellbeing support
• Music support/therapy
• Subscriptions
• Assessment tools/screening tools for baseline outcomes and measures/monitoring
• Families and Communities supports
• Other interventions to support closing poverty related attainment gap
• Books and software resources