Schools: Coronavirus
(asked on 17th December 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what payments have been made to schools in Sefton Central constituency to cover out-of-scope covid-19-associated costs.
The first window for schools to claim funding back for exceptional costs incurred due to the COVID-19 outbreak, between March and July 2020, closed on 21 July. Payments against claims made within the published scope of the fund were made to schools and academies in September. The funding is targeted towards the costs we have identified as the biggest barrier to schools operating as they needed to between March and July to support vulnerable children and children of critical workers. No payments have been made to any schools, including those in Sefton Central, for claims outside the published scope of the fund.
Schools in Sefton Central have received the following payments for claims made within the published scope.
School Name | Payment for claims within published scope |
Aintree Davenhill Primary School | £7,795 |
Hudson Primary School | £12,442 |
Northway Primary School | £7,081 |
Woodlands Primary School | £4,106 |
Summerhill Primary School | £6,029 |
Freshfield Primary School | £1,323 |
Green Park Primary School | £3,658 |
Redgate Community Primary School | £2,512 |
Melling Primary School | £3,369 |
Valewood Primary School | £2,970 |
Lydiate Primary School | £73 |
St Luke's Church of England Primary School | £3,535 |
St Luke's Halsall Church of England Primary School | £1,651 |
St Nicholas Church of England Primary School | £7,551 |
St George's Catholic Primary School | £5,392 |
St Mary's Catholic Primary School | £6,204 |
St William of York Catholic Primary School | £1,031 |
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School | £5,914 |
Ursuline Catholic Primary School | £949 |
St Jerome's Catholic Primary School | £623 |
Holy Rosary Catholic Primary School | £9,905 |
Maricourt Catholic High School | £7,029 |
Holy Family Catholic High School | £18,875 |
Crosby High School | £1,510 |
Newfield School | £18,661 |
Trinity St Peter's CofE Primary School | £1,797 |
Formby High School | £1,775 |
Maghull High School | £4,930 |
Deyes High School | £5,505 |
St Michael's Church of England High School | £7,246 |
St Thomas Church of England Primary School, Lydiate | £4,767 |
St Andrews Church of England Primary School, Maghull | £1,809 |
Schools continue to be able to access existing support for financial issues, including a wide range of school resource management tools, and, in serious circumstances, additional funding or advances from local authorities for maintained schools, or Education and Skills Funding Agency for academies.
Schools were able to claim in a second claims window that ran in December, for any costs which they did not claim for during the first window relating to the March to July period. We will shortly process those claims and make payments to maintained schools in February and academies in March.
In addition to this, the Department has announced details of a new COVID-19 workforce fund for schools and colleges to help them remain open: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-workforce-fund-for-schools/coronavirus-covid-19-workforce-fund-to-support-schools-with-costs-of-staff-absences-from-1-november-2020-to-31-december-2020.
It will fund the costs of teacher absences over a threshold in schools and colleges, and is intended for those with high staff absences that are also facing significant financial pressures. The Department expects schools to be able to claim for workforce costs relating to November and December 2020 in spring 2021. Schools will be able to incur additional costs, backdated to November, in the knowledge that they will be reimbursed if they meet the relevant criteria.