Question: How is the CJRS accessed by early years settings?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Actions for early years and childcare providers during the coronavirus outbreak
section_headers: Considerations for settings that are open during this period
Are early years and childcare settings opening on the 25 May 2020 bank holiday?
section_content: Early years and childcare settings should decide, in consultation with the
parents of children who are currently attending settings, whether it is
necessary for them to continue to look after critical workers’ children and
vulnerable children on Monday 25 May 2020.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
The answer is short and doesn't answer the question.  It is on topic though and does talk about the early years program.
This response doesn't really go all the way in answering the question. It only states that child care settings should decide in consultation with parents but not how to access CJRS

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Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Actions for early years and childcare providers during the coronavirus outbreak
section_headers: Early Years Foundation Stage
Does the Early Years Foundation Stage still apply?
section_content: The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) statutory
framework sets the standards that schools and childcare settings
must meet for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5
years old.
We have amended legislation to allow for the temporary disapplying and
modifying of a number of requirements within the EYFS, giving settings
flexibility to respond to changes in workforce availability and potential
fluctuations in demand while ensuring children are kept safe. These temporary
changes came into force on 24 April 2020.
Full details of the amendments can be found in the guidance on early years
foundation stage statutory framework
(EYFS), which also includes details about how the temporary
arrangements will be brought to an end. Settings and local authorities should
fully familiarise themselves with these changes to ensure they understand the
flexibilities available to them and are meeting the modified requirements,
especially in relation to paediatric first aid, during the coronavirus
outbreak.
*[EYFS]: early years foundation stage

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
The early years setting is talked about in this answer, but there is nothing said about the CJRS.  It's not really helpful, but it is on topic.
This response gives information about early years settings, but doesn't get into how that relates to CJRS. This answer feels incomplete and doesn't really address what the question is asking

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Could be Improved

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Actions for early years and childcare providers during the coronavirus outbreak
section_headers: Funding
How do early years settings access the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS)?
section_content: The CJRS scheme opened for applications on 20 April and guidance on how to
access the scheme can be found at Claim for wages through the Coronavirus Job
Retention Scheme. Early years providers remain eligible for
the CJRS while continuing to receive early entitlement funding via local
authorities.
The CJRS guidance, published by HM Revenue and Customs on
26 March, states that where employers receive public funding for staff costs,
and that funding is continuing, we expect employers to use that money to
continue to pay staff in the usual fashion - and correspondingly not furlough
them. This also applies to non-public sector employers who receive public
funding for staff costs. Employers should not be able to receive public
funding for staff cost and furlough payments for the same staff.
On 17 April, DfE published guidance setting out how the CJRS and early
entitlement funding
interacts, confirming that early years
settings can access the CJRS to cover up to the proportion of its pay bill
which could be considered to have been paid for from that provider’s private
income.
A private provider should only furlough employees, and therefore seek support
through the CJRS, 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 CJRS 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.
*[CJRS]: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
This answer gives a good amount about the CJRS.  There isn't an exact response about how it can be accessed by the early years settings though.
This is a great answer that directly responds to the question. There are CJRS guides linked in the response as well as criteria provided for how providers should furlough employees. There's a lot of detail and relevant information here

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