Question: How are schools going to be funded now?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
section_headers: Sector-specific guidance
State-funded schools
section_content: This includes maintained schools, academy trusts, alternative provision, non-
maintained special schools, state funded boarding schools and school-based
nursery provisions. Maintained nursery schools should refer to the early years
section above.
Mainstream state-funded schools
Local authority maintained schools (including pupil referral units) and
academies (including free schools) will continue to receive their budgets for
the coming year, as usual, regardless of any periods of partial or complete
closure. That will ensure that they are able to continue to pay their staff,
and meet their other regular financial commitments, as we move through these
extraordinary times. We know that schools may face additional costs as a
result of coronavirus (COVID-19). We have put in place additional support to
help schools meet these costs; guidance is
available on this additional funding.
We do not, in general, expect schools to furlough staff. However, we
understand that, in some instances, schools may have a separate private income
stream (for example, catering, sports facilities lettings, or boarding
provision funded by parents in state boarding schools). Where this income has
either stopped or been reduced and there are staff that are typically paid
from those private income streams, it may be appropriate to furlough staff.
Schools should first seek to make the necessary savings from their existing
budget or consider options to redeploy these staff before furloughing them.
Only after all other potential options have been fully considered should
schools furlough those members of staff and seek support through the
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
The following conditions need to be met:

the employee works in an area of business where services are temporarily not required and whose salary is not covered by public funding
the employee would otherwise be made redundant or laid off
• the employee is not involved in delivering provision that has already been funded
(where appropriate) the employee is not required to deliver provision for a child of a critical worker and/or vulnerable child
the grant from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme would not duplicate other public grants received and would not lead to financial reserves being created

Where these conditions are met, schools should receive a grant from the CJRS
which is in line with the proportion of its paybill which could be considered
to have been funded by a school’s private income.
To illustrate:
If a school’s average monthly private income stream (for example, from parent-
paid school meals) provides 4% of the schools’ overall income, the school
could claim support through the CJRS for up to 4% of its paybill, after
exhausting options to meet costs from existing budgets and redeployment This
would be done by furloughing staff (for example, catering staff) whose usual
salary or combined salaries are linked with the income lost and come to no
greater than 4% of the provider’s total paybill.
Schools are not expected to consider each stream of private income separately
so a school should consider its total income from private sources, as a
proportion of its overall income, and the pay of all the staff it proposes to
furlough, as a proportion of its total paybill.
The DfE is considering appropriate measures to monitor the use of this scheme
in order to detect any duplication of funding, and will be considering
potential options to recover misused public funding as required.
[CJRS]: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
  [DfE]: Department for Education

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Has detailed information about how schools will be funded during the pandemic. Fully on topic.
This answers the question that schools will continue to be state funded, and goes on to discuss other funding sources should they be needed.

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Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
section_headers: Sector-specific guidance
Early years
section_content: This section will be relevant to early years providers that are employers, and
that usually have a mix of public income (largely this will be funding for the
free early education entitlements, also known as ‘DSG funding’) and private
income (largely this will be the fees that parents pay for childcare beyond
the free entitlements).
Childminders are less likely to be employers, and therefore are less likely to
be eligible for support via the CJRS. Childminders may find the Self
Employment Income Support Scheme more
relevant. Maintained nursery schools should take account of the guidance in
this section. For school-based nursery provision, please refer to the
‘schools’ section below.
On 17 March 2020, the Chancellor confirmed that the government will continue
to pay local authorities for free early years entitlement places for 2, 3 and
4 year olds to support providers at this time. On 18 March 2020, the
government also announced a business rates holiday for many nurseries in
England for the 2020 to 2021 tax year. Read the
guidance.
Early years settings should remain open where they are needed to provide
childcare for the children of critical workers who cannot be cared for safely
at home, and vulnerable children.
A private provider should only furlough employees, and therefore seek support
through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, if they meet the following
conditions:

the employee works in an area of business where services are temporarily not required and where their salary is not covered by public funding
the employee would otherwise be made redundant or laid off
the employee is not involved in delivering provision that has already been funded (free entitlement funding)
(where appropriate) the employee is not required to deliver provision for a child of a critical worker and/or vulnerable child
the grant from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme would not duplicate other public grants received, and would not lead to financial reserves being created

If it is difficult to distinguish whether staff are funded through free
entitlement or private income for the purposes of meeting the first 3
conditions as listed above, then an early years provider can access the CJRS
to cover up to the proportion of its paybill which could be considered to have
been paid for from that provider’s private income. This would typically be
income received from ‘parent-paid’ hours, and excludes all income from the
government’s free entitlements (or ‘DSG income’) for all age groups. In line
with the conditions of the scheme listed above, providers should initially use
the month of February 2020 to represent their usual income in calculating the
proportion of its paybill eligible to be covered by the scheme. Providers
should adjust these proportions in subsequent furloughing applications if
their income from the government’s free entitlements changes, but are not
expected to make any adjustments in relation to changes in parent-paid income.
To illustrate:
If a provider’s average monthly income is 40% from DSG and 60% from other
income, the provider could claim CJRS support for up to 60% of their paybill.
This would be done by furloughing staff whose usual salary / combined salaries
come to no greater than 60% of the provider’s total paybill.
These proportions could change in subsequent furlough applications as a result
of DSG income changing (but not where income from parents increased or
decreased). For example, if this provider subsequently receives additional DSG
income from a local authority as a result of providing additional hours of
childcare, such that its new DSG income would represent 55% of its total
income in February 2020, then its maximum use of the furlough scheme should,
from that point, be reduced to 45% of its paybill.
Some early years settings may also be eligible for the Small Business Grant
Fund (SBGF). The details and eligibility criteria for SBGF can be found in
the
guidance. For more information, and to find out how to apply for the
Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan scheme, please refer to the Financial
support for businesses during coronavirus (COVID-19)
guidance.
Further guidance for early years
providers is available.
The DfE is considering appropriate measures to monitor the use of these
schemes in order to detect any duplication of funding, and will be considering
potential options to recover misused public funding as required.
[DSG]: dedicated schools grant
  [CJRS]: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
  *[DfE]: Department for Education

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Has information about funding for childcare centers. Doesn't address
This only slightly touches on school funding but mainly focuses on how teachers and staff can be paid and remain on staff.

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Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
section_headers: Funding and financial support for businesses
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme
section_content: 
the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS) is a government-backed loan scheme administered by commercial lenders
viable UK-based businesses, with a turnover of more than £45 million per year, will be able to apply for up £25 million of finance. Firms with a turnover of more than £250 million will be able to apply for up to £50 million of finance
loans backed by a guarantee under CLBILS will be offered at commercial rates of interest
read more about the scheme and how to apply

*[CLBILS]: Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Talks about funding for large businesses instead of schools. Answer is entirely off topic.
This discusses business loans and does not address educational institutions.

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