FIFE SCHOOLS RECEIVE £10 MILLION BOOST FROM PUPIL EQUITY FUND
Published date : 12 Feb 2018
FIFE SCHOOLS RECEIVE £10 MILLION BOOST FROM PUPIL EQUITY FUND
Mid Fife and Glenrothes MSP Jenny Gilruth has welcomed the announcement from the Scottish Government that a fund aimed at boosting the attainment levels of deprived pupils is set to pay out £10,101,480 to schools across Fife next year.
More than 2,300 schools across Scotland are set to benefit from the funding – including 157 across the Kingdom. The funding is targeted towards schools who have the highest numbers of pupils receiving free school meals, so that the money is spent where it is needed most.
The significant investment gives money directly to headteachers, allowing them to spend the money on local initiatives that will help close the poverty-related attainment gap.
Commenting, the Mid Fife and Glenrothes MSP, Jenny Gilruth, said:
“The Scottish Government has made closing the poverty-related attainment gap a key priority in this parliament – and the latest investment of over £10.1 million in schools across the Kingdom is a central part of that.
“By placing excellence and equity at the very heart of our schools in Fife, the pupil equity fund will help support the Scottish Government’s transformative education reforms and raise standards across Scotland.
“I know from engaging with a number of head teachers on the subject that some innovative thinking is taking place on how this funding is best deployed and I think that can only benefit the children being educated in these schools.’’
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Notes:
Local breakdown of funding:
Number of schools receiving PEF
Allocations
Aberdeen City
61
£2,845,080
Aberdeenshire
159
£2,906,520
Angus
57
£2,118,240
Argyll & Bute
75
£1,401,600
Clackmannanshire
22
£1,575,120
Dumfries & Galloway
110
£2,972,520
Dundee City
43
£4,980,840
East Ayrshire
57
£3,465,000
East Dunbartonshire
44
£1,588,440
East Lothian
40
£1,565,160
East Renfrewshire
31
£1,412,040
Edinburgh City
122
£7,452,120
Eilean Siar
23
£290,880
Falkirk
61
£3,577,320
Fife
157
£10,101,480
Glasgow City
191
£21,785,160
Highland
183
£4,095,000
Inverclyde
28
£2,436,120
Midlothian
39
£2,273,160
Moray
52
£1,341,960
North Ayrshire
60
£4,413,960
North Lanarkshire
156
£8,834,880
Orkney Islands
18
£232,200
Perth & Kinross
74
£1,661,520
Renfrewshire
62
£4,272,240
Scottish Borders
68
£1,841,280
Shetland Islands
20
£233,880
South Ayrshire
50
£2,413,200
South Lanarkshire
148
£7,988,400
Stirling
45
£1,483,440
West Dunbartonshire
41
£3,425,880
West Lothian
82
£5,160,840
Sum of local authorities
2379
£122,145,480
Grant-Maintained
8
£112,800
Total
2387
£122,258,280
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