The governments Pupil Premium funding will be allocated through schools and local authorities to deprived children who are currently known to be eligible for FSM in both mainstream and non-mainstream settings and children who have been looked after for more than 6 months. Total funding for the Pupil Premium will be £625m in 2011-12, and will rise to £2.5 billion a year by 2014-15. In guidance set out by the Department for Education, they state: “Whilst schools will be free to spend the Pupil Premium as they see fit, they will be held accountable for how they have used the additional funding to support deprived pupils. New measures will be included in the performance tables that will capture the achievement of those deprived pupils covered by the Pupil Premium. From September 2012, we will also require schools to publish online information about how they have used the premium. This will ensure that parents and others are made fully aware of the progress and attainment of pupils covered by the premium.” TIMEextra provides schools and authorities with a system that identifies and flags those pupils in receipt of the Pupil Premium, allowing staff to monitor how this funding is being spent, highlights pupils where the funding is not being utilised, and then report with a detailed break-down what and where the funding has been used for each pupil and for the school / authority as a whole and what impact it has had on attainment, attendance and behaviour. This ensures that there are no ‘nasty’ surprises at the end of the year.