Can a child receive Pupil Premium funding at a private school?

[dairymilkisevil]

DD is at private school on a hefty scholarship and bursary.

I now receive child tax credit and have an income of £4K per year. I am separated very recently hence why I am now claiming.

Next school I hope to get DD into is a grammar and its admissions rules say that kids who are receiving pupil premium (ie, it says, those who receive free school meals) get priority admission. We are out of catchment otherwise, but it's a terrific school and it would be great if she could go there through this rule.

However, with DD currently being at private school, the fees there include lunch anyway. So she doesn't get free school meals because nobody there pays extra for them, IYSWIM.

So How I can improve to the grammar school that she is eligible for free school meals / pupil premium? Do private schools have access to the Pupil Premium for the kids there who are on bursaries mama scholarships?

Don't know about the Op, but in my case my earnings are so low because I work from home and have applied deductions. So although my 'earnings' are higher (though still very low) I have costs that I can deduct, including a portion of utilities and mortgage interest. We only survived because family helped cover the mortgage. If the Op is in council housing or living in a lower cost area (I'm in the south east so bloody expensive).

Tax Credits take my income money much higher. I assume they do for the Op as well.