Catch-up Premium

Children and young people across the country have experienced unprecedented disruption to their education as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19). Those from the most vulnerable and disadvantaged backgrounds will be among those hardest hit.

We know that we have the professional knowledge and expertise in the education system to ensure that children and young people recover and get back on track. Returning to normal educational routines as quickly as possible will be critical to our national recovery.

For the 2020-21 academic year, the government announced £1 billion of funding to support children and young people to catch up. This included a one-off universal £650 million catch-up premium for the 2020 to 2021 academic year to ensure that schools had some of the support they needed to help all pupils make up for lost teaching time.

You can find the details about how this was used to support the children at Brooklands in 2020-21 here.

For the 2021-22 academic year, the government have given schools a Recovery premium payment. This has been incorporated into the planned spending for the Pupil Premium funding, full details of which can be found on this page.