Question: Where can I find out more about how schools will operate with their budgets right now?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
section_headers: Independent schools
Special post-16 institutions
section_content: As noted above, local authorities will continue to receive their high needs
budgets and should continue to pay top-up and other high needs funding to
special post-16 institutions, so that the employment and payment of staff
supporting young people with SEND can continue. The ESFA will continue to
provide high needs place funding. Similarly, local authorities should continue
to support the residential costs of those students that are in residential
provision.
As with colleges, special post-16 institutions may rely on non-grant income
for young people with EHC plans. If such income has ceased or reduced, it may
be appropriate for special post-16 institutions to seek support from the
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to furlough staff who are working on
activities relating to those non-grant income streams, in the same way as
providers as set out above.
[SEND]: special educational needs and disability
  [ESFA]: Education and Skills Funding Agency
  *[EHC]: education, health and care

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Answer does not address the subject of the question, doesnt say how achools qill operate on their budgets.
It talks about everything that the funding is needed for.

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Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance School funding: exceptional costs associated with coronavirus (COVID-19) for the period March to July 2020
section_headers: How schools can access funding
section_content: Funding will be available to cover costs relating to specific items. These
items are ones we judge are likely to be necessary to allow schools to provide
appropriate support to those children who will continue to attend school under
the current arrangements.
Funding will be available to schools that are unable to meet such additional
costs from their existing resources, or which they could only meet by drawing
down on reserves and undermining their long-term financial sustainability.
While we are not asking schools to draw on existing reserves to meet these
costs, we do not expect schools to make a claim against this funding if they
are anticipating that they will be able to add to their reserves in the 2020
to 2021 financial year.
We are asking schools to make the necessary payments from their existing
budgets and record these in line with local finance policies. In June, we will
publish further guidance for schools on the process for informing us of any
additional costs relating to coronavirus (COVID-19). We understand the
significant challenges schools are facing at present and will therefore make
the process for reporting this information as simple as possible. We will then
make payments – direct to academies, or to local authorities to pass onto
their schools – to reimburse schools for costs they apply for up to the limits
set out below.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
It answers the question. It talks about all of the different aspects.
The answer covers much of the subject of the question but wasnt an excellent answer.

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Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Actions for schools during the coronavirus outbreak
section_headers: Preparing for the wider opening of education settings from 1 June
How will schools be supported in preparing for wider opening?
section_content: Schools, and all childcare providers, have been serving a vital role by
continuing to provide care for a limited number of children - children who are
vulnerable, and children whose parents are critical to the coronavirus
response.
We have worked closely with the sector, and will continue to do so over the
coming weeks to support the wider opening of schools, colleges and childcare
settings. We have published guidance on actions for education and childcare
settings to prepare for wider opening from 1 June
2020, which sets out the overarching aims and principles of this
next phase, including information about protective measures which will be in
place. We will work with the profession to produce more detailed guidance
ahead of 1 June 2020.
All schools are different, and it is not possible for government to set
specific national guidelines that could be universally applicable. Instead, we
have created an initial planning
framework to help school leaders and trusts to start to think
through the steps they might need to take to enable them to open their schools
for more pupils. This framework can be seen as a starting point from which
schools and trusts may choose to develop their own plans, providing
operational guidance to support school and trust leaders in agreeing the best
approaches for their circumstances.

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
It includes a lot of irrelevant information. It doesn't answer the question.
The answer talks about the reopening of schools but mentions nothing about budgets or budget usage.

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