Primary PE and Sport Funding - New guidelines, conditions of grant, and best practices
Published 17 October 2024
Funding must only be spent on making additional and sustainable improvements to the provision of PE and sport for the benefit of all primary-aged pupils to encourage the development of healthy, active lifestyles.
Schools must spend the PE and sport premium funding within the academic year it has been allocated for and funding should not be allocated only to benefit a certain year group. Schools cannot roll-over any unused funding into the following academic year.
The Secretary of State does not consider the following expenditure as falling within the scope of additional or sustainable improvement:
- capital expenditure (except for goods within the de minimis value for purchases set by the school)
- employing coaches or specialist teachers to cover planning preparation and assessment (PPA) arrangements. This should be funded from a school’s core staffing budgets
- staff salaries, for example using your premium funding allocation to employ someone whose role is to specifically administer the PE and sport premium, or to use your entire funding allocation to employ someone that is responsible for arranging and running PE, sport or activity sessions. This would not be viewed as sustainable
- to teach the existing PE curriculum (or, in the case of academies, to teach the existing PE curriculum)– apart from top-up swimming lessons after pupils’ completion of core lessons. Teaching of the curriculum should be funded through a school’s core funding.
- the purchase of services that will be delivered or/used in following academic years (this includes the payment of invoices/subscriptions in advance)
- the purchase of staff or pupil PE kit
The PSSP continues to fulfil all the criteria of providing additional and sustainable improvements to the provision of PE and sport for the benefit of all primary-aged pupils to encourage the development of healthy, active lifestyles.
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