London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Pupils identified: 824
Additional Pupil Premium funding: £1,109,880
Key insight: This was the very first borough Basis worked with on FSM - back in 2023!
Lesson learnt: Success was only possible by breaking down silos and collaborating across multiple Council teams.
Southwark Council
Pupils identified: 697
Additional Pupil Premium funding: £655,000
Key insight: 83% of identified pupils came from lone parent households.
Lesson learnt: We identified 30 pupils in Alternative Provision. This action is vital for compliance. It ensures the Council meets the DfE mandate to provide meals regardless of the setting. only possible by breaking down silos and collaborating across multiple Council teams.
Torbay Council
Pupils identified: 234
Additional Pupil Premium funding: £321,510
Key insight: Torbay is now exploring how to apply this same process to Early Years Pupil Premium.
Lesson learnt: You don’t need expensive software - Torbay proved that auto-enrolment is entirely possible using Excel.
Devon County Council
Pupils identified: 1,042
Additional Pupil Premium funding: £1,313,900
Key insight: Devon was the first two-tier authority to introduce our opt-out auto-enrolment process.
Lesson learnt: Devon negotiated a new data process with national government agencies, establishing a blueprint for other two-tier authorities to follow.
London Borough of Bexley
Pupils identified: 587
Additional Pupil Premium funding: £809,655
Key insight: 97% of identified households received their opt-out letter via email, resulting in major postage savings for the Council.
Lesson learnt: It is possible to identify and register families with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF).
Gloucester County Council
Pupils identified: 591
Additional Pupil Premium funding: £734,735
Key insight: GCC published their AE FSM case study via Herald - an open access research repository.
Read here.
Lesson learnt: We used our AE FSM process to also check entitlement for Early Years Pupil Premium and identified an additional £17,000 in EYPP that would have otherwise been missed!
Oxfordshire County Council
Pupils identified: 1,123
Additional Pupil Premium funding:£1,536,800
Key insight: OCC is now implementing a new FSM management system by System C to have a clear understanding of FSM take-up.
Lesson learnt: It's important for LAs to build strong relationships with schools from the start to ensure commitment to supporting the opt-out process.
Nottingham City Council
Pupils identified: 1,219
Additional Pupil Premium funding: over £1,800,000
Key insight: Working with the DfE to integrate the new ECE bulk re-checking into the process. Highlighting auto-enrolment's benefits in our opt-out letters was highly effective, resulting in zero opt-outs.
Lesson learnt: As part of the process we implemented, the council chose opt-in as the route to contacting parents with no date of birth listed.
Telford and Wrekin
Co-operative Council
Stay tuned!