Question: Is there any type of funding or financial support for education, early years, and children's social care businesses, including Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)?

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
High needs funding
section_content: Local authorities have an important role in making sure that the high needs
funding they receive as part of their DSG is used effectively in making
educational provision for children and young people up to the age of 25 with
Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans, and other vulnerable children and
young people. Authorities will continue to receive their high needs budgets
and should continue to pay top-up and other high needs funding so that the
employment and payment of staff supporting children and young people with
special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and those requiring
alternative provision, can continue. High needs funding will therefore
continue to be paid to the following types of setting, whether from local or
central government:

local authority-maintained schools (mainstream, special and pupil referral units)
academies and free schools (mainstream, special and alternative provision)
non-maintained special schools
independent schools, including independent special schools
independent alternative provision
high needs places in further education (FE) colleges and sixth form colleges
special post-16 providers
hospital schools

Funding will be maintained and should not be reduced because some or all
children and young people are not in attendance (because of sickness or self-
isolation, or where the institution has temporarily or partially closed).
Similarly, where settings pay top-up or other funding for pupils attending
alternative provision, or pay for other SEND or alternative provision
services, these payments should continue to be made so that teachers and other
staff in all types of setting can be paid in accordance with their existing
employment contracts. If placements and services for the summer term have not
yet been agreed, settings should be willing to fund on the basis of previous
patterns of placements and commissioning. Where changes to the delivery of
special provision and alternative provision are required, the first response
should be to redeploy existing resources, if necessary between settings and
other institutions as well as within settings.
Teaching and non-teaching staff (administration, operations, maintenance and
catering) should not be furloughed where they are funded from continued high
needs funding, and where necessary and feasible, should be available for
redeployment within settings and in other settings to assist in maintaining
provision for vulnerable children and young people, and the children of
critical workers.
[DSG]: dedicated schools grant
  [EHC]: education, health and care
  [SEND]: special educational needs and disability
  [FE]: further education

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
This discusses funding for all schools, not just early childhood, and doesn't address further assistance or aid beyond regular funding.
This response is good because it is all about the funding available for educational institutions. It goes into more details about how teachers should not be furloughed due to this funding. All in all a good answer

Reviewer ratings:
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Acceptable

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:
There is detailed information about funding and assistance as well as guidelines for remaining open.
This response is a very detailed account of the funding that is available to the different education settings. There are links with more relevant info and this thoroughly answers the question

Reviewer ratings:
Excellent
Excellent

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
Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) relief for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
section_content: 
the government has introduced a rebate scheme to allow small and medium-sized businesses to reclaim Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) paid for staff sickness absence due to coronavirus (COVID-19). This refund will cover up to 2 weeks’ SSP per eligible employee who has been off work because they have been ill with the virus or have had to self-isolate because of it
employers must maintain records of staff absences
read more about the scheme

*[SSP]: statutory sick pay

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
The article address SSP, but is not specific to early childhood workers.
This response seems to be talking about businesses in general where the question is asking about education specifically. So this answer could be better by being more on topic

Reviewer ratings:
Could be Improved
Could be Improved