As you have personal experience of this, I am sure you have reported any fraudulent activity?

Schools are given a pupil premium for:
In the 2018 to 2019 financial year, schools will receive the following funding for each pupil registered as eligible for free school meals (FSM) at any point in the last 6 years:

£1,320 for pupils in reception to year 6
£935 for pupils in year 7 to year 11

Schools will receive £2,300 for any pupil:

identified in the January 2018 school census or the alternative provision census as having left local authority care as a result of:
adoption
a special guardianship order
a child arrangements order (previously known as a residence order)
who has been in local authority care for 1 day or more
recorded as both eligible for FSM in the last 6 years and as being looked after (or as having left local authority care)

For pupils who attract the £2,300 rate, the virtual school head of the local authority that looks after the pupil will manage the funding.

We’ve published pupil premium allocations for the 2018 to 2019 financial year. These are based on data from the January 2018 school census.

You can find more information about the terms of the funding in the conditions of grant document.

To reiterate what I have already said. Out of catchment PP do not take priority over in catchment children.

The order in which qualified pupils will be admitted

1. Looked After Children
2. In catchment PP
3. In catchment siblings
4. In catchment
5. Out of catchment PP
6. Out of catchment siblings
7. Out of catchment

Within each category priority is give to those who live closest.

I am not against the allocation of seats for under privilege children but I agree this will be very unfair for the hard working children and their parents. I had experience of stress and effort to go through to pass the test. My daughter has passed the test and we are close to school of choice so hopefully she will get allocation in March but I shall be very gutted and frustrated if she could not get due to such criteria.

From my personal experience, I have known few families who are claiming PP for their children but are quite well off (cash income not declared) . I know this is a different topic and come under benefit cheats abusing the system but learning such people manage to get the admissions and are not even in the catchment area make my really annoyed.