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It includes sections such as:
- The pupil premium strategy plan
- Pupil progress
- Links with the governing board
Guidance: monitoring in practice
You should:
- Measure success based on outcomes for eligible pupils
- Use a robust and transparent evaluation framework and report outcomes against this
- Make evaluation an ongoing process, as strategies that have been effective in one year might not continue to be effective
You shouldn't:
- Use data that doesn't measure pupil outcomes
- Base your evaluations on the reactions of those delivering the activity
- Set vague intended outcomes from the start, as this makes evaluation more difficult
This is set out on page 12 of the DfE's guidance for school leaders on using the pupil premium.
While you're in charge of collecting evidence of the impact of all
