1. Education and Children’s Services
Aberdeen City Council
Education and Children’s Services
Pupil Equity Funding – Guidance for Schools

2. How to Identify the Gap

3. Pupil Equity Fund Graeme Logan (Education Scotland):
“The money will be lumped together….We are taking a slightly more flexible approach for your own professional judgement in other words.”
“Who is it in your community who is effected by poverty? and poverty looks different everywhere…. Rural poverty, hidden poverty etc. So who is it that is the most needy? Who is it whose progress in attainment is effected by poverty?”
“The schools who have made the most progress are really clear on what attainment gaps exist across their pupil cohort.”

6. Targeted interventions
The Process
Identify the gap
Improvement Planning
Targeted interventions
Self-evaluation

7. Take the vision and turn it into reality…identify the gap
What are the gaps in your school? What are the gaps in each year groups / class? What is going to change in the classroom to close the gap ? What are the barriers to learning in our school ? Think about a 4 year plan What is the rationale for your spend? A few targeted interventions within and beyond the classroom before thinking about the “stuff”.

8. Five key indicators to consider
Attainment
Attendance
Exclusion
Engagement - in every lesson and beyond school
Participation

9. Primary Absence

10. Secondary Absence

11. Where is the ‘gap’? S4 Maths class 1/9

12. S4 Maths class 9/9

13. Targeted interventions
The process
Identify the gap
Improvement Planning
Targeted interventions
Self-evaluation

15. Interventions for Equity

16. Targeted Interventions

17. Targeted Interventions

18. Interventions for Equity

19. Interventions for Equity

20. PEF - Mind the gap traps
Staffing – need to ensure you will be able to appoint.
What difference will they make?
Opportunity to pool staff across ASG?
Set a clear target - try to be aspirational …..in 2020…….

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22. Pupil Equity Fund ACC Guidance Booklet for Head Teachers
Identifying the gap
Targeted interventions and impact
Financial and HR guidance
Timeline for central teams and schools
Initial Planning – Pupil Equity Funding

23. PEF Guidance Booklet http://www.abernet.org/ Planning for improvement
Financial Guidance and Procurement
HR Guidance
Costs for Staff
Planned Interventions- Central Support
Time Line for Schools and Central teams
Initial PEF Planning Sheet

24. Financial Guidance and Procurement
The PEF finance will be transferred to the cost centre E55 followed by the individual school code.
Any expenditure must comply with Aberdeen Council Financial Regulations including procurement.
It is anticipated that use will be made of the existing Aberdeen City Council and National framework contracts for the provision of goods and services. In the event of a new procurement being required or if the total value of the orders with any one supplier takes us beyond the current award threshold further commissioning work will be required in conjunction with the Commercial and Procurement Service (CPS) . This will be reflected in the planning and delivery timescales.
Once the initial PEF planning forms are completed and collated we will be in a position to determine what if any additional procurement work is necessary.

25. HR Guidance
Any staff employed must be on national and/or local terms and conditions and expenditure is compliant with procurement regulations.
Adding to the core teaching and support staffing- Proposed City wide business case. (Depute Head point 1 example)
Creating a new post- Play worker etc. Proposed citywide job evaluation.
All ex gratia payments at Principal Teacher level point 1 - City wide proposal.
Current posts out with schools – sourced and costed at normal rates of pay.

26. Time Line Central and School Teams
Month
Schools
Central Teams
Feb 17
Schools and ASGs begin discussions around identifying the gap and intended interventions.
Initial Input to Head Teachers
March 17
Schools begin to populate initial PEF planning sheet.
Guidance booklet issued to schools- please note this will be continually updated and will be uploaded to the PEF tab on Abernet.
Initial planning sheet for PEF issued to schools
SQUIP paperwork issued to schools
Central Teams briefed on Pupil Equity Funding – add updates to Pupil equity fund guidance booklet.
April 17
Schools submit initial planning sheet to centre. These should be submitted to
Finance downloaded to schools
Elected members briefed on Pupil Equity Funding
May 17
Schools to present PEF plans to colleagues and central officers at Head Teacher meeting to test suitability of plans.
Quality assurance of initial plans by QIO.
Discussion at ASG re PEF initial plans.
Finance and HR teams discuss follow up actions emerging from initial plans.
Head Teacher meeting – attended by relevant central officers to discuss and test PEF plans.
June 17
Schools submit SQUIP with specific details of PEF planning.
PEF within SQUIP quality assured by QIO
Sept 17
Schools prepare specific input as part of the KIT visit with QIO.
Update on progress re PEF and planned interventions at keeping in touch visits by QIO

28. Commissioned Purchased services Partners
Area of Purchase
Details
Approximate Cost
Resources
Teaching Staff
Support Staff
New Staff Post- not within current structures at LA e.g. play worker etc.
Commissioned Purchased services Partners
Transport
Lets
Other
Total