Question: How will independent schools be funded during this time?

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:
There could be a more specific mention of the independent school system here.  There is a mention of the funding, but it's not really a lot of information.
This answer does not discuss on how its funded but how some young student can get young funding for their education.

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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: Independent schools
Mainstream independent schools
section_content: In line with other settings, independent schools have been asked to remain
open for the children of critical workers and the most vulnerable children.
Independent schools are, in general, funded by fee income paid by parents.
Since schools have closed to the majority of pupils, they, like other
businesses, may be facing a sudden and substantial loss of income. These
institutions should access the support schemes referred to above, in order to
retain staff and enable the school to reopen fully in due course.
However, if there are any activities for which schools continue to receive
public funding, such as looked after children placed by a local authority, or
local authority support for pupils with EHC plans, we expect schools to use
that money to continue to pay those staff in the usual fashion – and therefore
not furlough them or seek support via the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.
*[EHC]: education, health and care

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
There could be more information, but the answer is about the funding of independent schools.  It's a decent answer.
While it does tell you that its funded by parents it is very simple and not specific enough. Need more detail on how the government will funded the schools.

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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: Independent schools
Independent special schools
section_content: The majority of pupils in independent special schools have been placed there
by local authorities under an EHC plan, funded from the high needs block of
the DSG.
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
independent special schools, so that the employment and payment of staff
supporting children and young people with SEND can continue. Some independent
special schools also have pupils who are funded privately instead of under an
EHC plan. These institutions should only access the support schemes identified
above in relation to the proportion of staff that is not supported through
public funding, and only to the extent that the school is facing a loss of
income because the children have been withdrawn by their parents leading to a
loss of fee income.
[EHC]: education, health and care
  [DSG]: dedicated schools grant
  *[SEND]: special educational needs and disability

Reviewer feedback on this answer:
The information here is about the independent school system.  There isn't a lot of information on the funding though.
This answer give very vague answers on how they would be funded. It could be useful to give more information on how to give funding and on what specific they would give funding too.

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