Designed to give the UK's most disadvantaged children an academic boost, the pupil premium is a £1.25bn allowance to be spent on disadvantaged students: those eligible for Free School Meals (FSM) and children of members of the armed services. It is an excellent initiative that has the potential to genuinely improve the academic attainment of tens of thousands of children.

More than 350,000 children could lose their free school meals under the government's planned welfare reforms, a charity has warned. An analysis by ...

Schools are asking poorer parents to sign up for free school meals even if they don't intend to use them in order to boost funding, campaigners claime...

Nearly half of children receiving free school meals don't feel safe at home, a national children's charity has claimed. School-Home Support UK (SHS...

Around one in six secondary school pupils are going without breakfast, a study suggests. It raises concerns that skipping breakfast will leave youn...

Scores of schoolchildren are falling behind in their three Rs - reading, writing and arithmetic - after just three years of school. Key stage one f...