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Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
Funding and financial support for businesses
COVID-19 Corporate Financing Facility

the COVID-19 Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF) is a facility designed to support liquidity among larger firms, helping them to bridge coronavirus (COVID-19) disruption to their cash flows through the purchase of short-term debt in the form of commercial paper
the CCFF provides funding to businesses by purchasing commercial paper of up to one-year maturity, issued by firms making a material contribution to the UK economy. This facility will primarily provide bridging support to businesses to see them through the temporary nature of coronavirus (COVID-19)-related disruption
read more about the scheme and how to apply

*[CCFF]: COVID-19 Corporate Financing Facility
Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
Independent schools
Special post-16 institutions
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
Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
Higher Education
Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Schemes (CLBILS) and COVID-19 Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF)
If HE providers meet the published criteria for the Coronavirus Business
Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS), or the Coronavirus Large Business
Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS), they should consider approaching their bank
to apply for the scheme, if they judge that is needed. Some HE providers may
also meet the criteria for the COVID-19 Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF)
and should liaise with their bank to discuss eligibility. If their bank does
not issue commercial paper, UK Finance has published a list of those banks
that are able to assist.
[HE]: higher education
  [CBILS]: Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme
  [CLBILS]: Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme
  [CCFF]: COVID-19 Corporate Financing Facility
Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
Sector-specific guidance
High needs funding
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
Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
Which options should be used
Due to the variety of organisations in the education, early years and
children’s social care sectors and the different types of support on offer, it
may be appropriate for organisations to access a mixture of different support.
However, we expect that all relevant organisations should first consider any
potential options to reduce their operating cost and secure commercial loans
(including CBILS, CLBILS and CCFF outlined above) before seeking to access
grant paying schemes like the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme or seeking
specific support from the Department for Education (DfE).
For organisations that are classified as public sector, and where there is
continued public funding, staff that are supported by that public funding
should not be furloughed. For public sector organisations where there is also
private income which ceases or has reduced, it may be appropriate to furlough
staff who would typically be paid from that private income, subject to the 5
conditions below.
We would encourage organisations to first consider how they would be able to
redeploy their existing workforce to help support the coronavirus (COVID-19)
response. Educational settings that are in receipt of some public funding
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
(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 lead to financial reserves being created

It is also essential that the grant from the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
should not be duplicative of other public grants that your organisations may
receive. DfE is considering appropriate measures to monitor 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.
We are also developing an online tool that will support the education, early
years, and children’s social care sectors, in working through this guidance,
and understanding the different funding and financial measures available to
support them, and their workforce, through this period of disruption caused by
coronavirus (COVID-19).
[CBILS]: Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme
  [CLBILS]: Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme
  [CCFF]: COVID-19 Corporate Financing Facility
  [DfE]: Department for Education
Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
Funding and financial support for businesses
Support for business that pay business rates
In addition to existing business rates reliefs, the government has outlined
further support via the business rate system which may be relevant to the
education, early years and children’s social care sectors:

an additional Small Business Grant Scheme to support small businesses that already pay little or no business rates because of small business rate relief (SBRR), rural rate relief (RRR) and tapered relief. This will provide a one-off grant of £10,000 to eligible properties
a business rates holiday for many nurseries in England for the 2020 to 2021 tax year. Properties that will benefit from the relief will be occupied by providers on Ofsted’s Early Years Register, and wholly or mainly used for the provision of the Early Years Foundation Stage. Billing authorities may not grant the relief to themselves

Any enquiries on eligibility for, or provision of, the grants or holidays
should be directed to the relevant billing authority.
[SBRR]: small business rate relief
  [RRR]: rural rate relief
Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
Sector-specific guidance
Residential special schools
State-funded residential special provision is delivered in various types of
setting, including state-maintained schools, non-maintained special schools,
independent schools and special post 16 institutions. While the educational
costs will continue to be funded from the DSG, the residential costs are met
from social care budgets. Local authorities will continue to receive funding
for social care provision and should continue to pay residential costs so that
the employment and payment of staff supporting children and young people who
require residential provision can continue.
*[DSG]: dedicated schools grant
Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
Higher Education
During and after the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, our aim is for Higher
Education (HE) providers to continue to:

deliver HE provision
support the needs of students, both on and off campus

We will work with HE providers to help them access the range of measures on
offer to:

support financial viability and sustainability
safeguard jobs (including those staff on casual, hourly paid or fixed-term contracts)

We have confirmed that the Student Loans Company is planning to make Term 3
tuition fee payments as scheduled.
We expect that in most circumstances, HE providers will be able to continue
paying their staff as usual because HE delivery has largely moved online, and
staff are maintaining key services, including those for students remaining on
campus.
*[HE]: higher education
Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
Funding and financial support for businesses
Continued government funding for activities
For many programmes, government will continue to provide funding at normal
rates, for example core funding for schools through the Dedicated Schools
Grant (DSG), to ensure business continuity and payment of staff. Local
authorities will also continue to receive high needs funding as part of the
DSG and should continue to pass this on to providers (including the top-up
funding in respect of individual children and young people) at the normal
rates.
Where funding continues to be paid, we expect providers to continue to provide
that service in so far as is possible, and in accordance with the relevant
guidance. Where activities have changed, staff should be redeployed as best
supports the coronavirus (COVID-19) response and should continue to be paid as
normal, even if typical duties cannot be carried out.
*[DSG]: dedicated schools grant
Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
Independent schools
Mainstream independent schools
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
Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
Funding and financial support for businesses
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for furloughed workers

the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) is designed to support employers whose operations have been severely affected by coronavirus (COVID-19) by providing them with a grant to help them to continue paying part of their employees’ wages who would otherwise have been laid off during this outbreak
the scheme will ensure furloughed staff receive up to 80% of their usual monthly wage costs, up to £2,500 a month, plus the associated Employer National Insurance contribution and minimum automatic enrolment employer pension contribution on that wage
the scheme is available to all UK employers, including charities, which had created and started a PAYE payroll scheme on or before 19 March 2020
the government expects that the scheme will not be used by many public sector organisations, as most public sector employees are continuing to provide essential public services or contribute to the response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
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
organisations that are receiving public funding specifically to provide services necessary to respond to coronavirus (COVID-19) are expected not to furlough staff
in a small number of cases, for example where organisations are not primarily funded by the government and whose staff cannot be redeployed to assist with the coronavirus response, the scheme may be appropriate
find out more about the scheme

*[CJRS]: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
Funding and financial support for businesses
Public Procurement Note 02/20

in March 2020, the Cabinet Office published the ‘Procurement Policy Note 02/20 – Supplier relief due to COVID-19’. This confirmed that contracting authorities would act to support critical suppliers ‘at risk’ due to coronavirus (COVID-19) on a continuity and retention basis so they are better able to cope with current challenges and to resume normal service delivery and fulfil their contractual obligations when the outbreak is over
it covers procurements carried out under the Public Contract Regulations 2015, Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011, the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 and the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016
contracting authorities will need to ensure that spending is regular, proper and value for money and conduct appropriate and proportionate due diligence is carried out to ensure any relief is necessary for the continuity of supply of a critical service
read more about the Cabinet Office PPN 02/20 guidance

The guidance below is intended to offer a view of the likely suitability of
each of the schemes above, based on provider type. For further guidance on
eligibility criteria of the above support packages, please refer to their
respective guidance page as linked above.
Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): financial support for education, early years and children’s social care
Higher Education
Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS)
Where the above schemes are not appropriate, HE providers are eligible for the
CJRS. HE providers should only furlough employees and 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 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 be duplicative to other public grants that the HE provider receives and would not lead to financial reserves being created

Any grant from the CJRS should not duplicate other sources of public funding
where these are being maintained, such as UK home student tuition fees.
However, we do recognise the complexity of HE revenue and the role that cross-
subsidy plays. If it is difficult to distinguish whether staff are funded
through public or commercial income for the purposes of meeting the first 3
conditions as listed above, and some staff will be funded through multiple
sources, as a guiding principle, HE providers should not seek to furlough a
higher proportion of their wage bill than could reasonably be considered to
have been generated through commercial income, including from non-public
research grants and contracts.
It is likely that decisions on whether to furlough staff will need to be taken
on a case by case basis. To be eligible for the CJRS, when on furlough, an
employee cannot undertake work for, or on behalf of, their employer.
Where research work has been paused (for example, where grant holders have
requested a no-cost extension to UK Research & Innovation grants) and
therefore providers are not able to receive payments towards staff costs for a
period, resulting in a loss of income due to ceased or reduced delivery of
research programmes, providers should consider their eligibility and apply for
the wide range of financial support that HM Treasury has already announced for
businesses, including the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme in line with the
above conditions.
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.
We will continue to engage with the sector and update this guidance, and
provide further clarification as necessary.
[HE]: higher education
  [CJRS]: Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
  *[DfE]: Department for Education
Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): getting tested
Who can be tested
If you’re in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland and have any of the
symptoms of coronavirus, you can ask for a test through the NHS
website.
The following groups of people can access priority testing through GOV.UK:

essential workers in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
anyone in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland over 5 years old who has symptoms of coronavirus and lives with an essential worker
children under 5 years old in England who have symptoms of coronavirus and live with an essential worker (this test must be performed by a parent or guardian)

See the guidance on testing for essential workers and the list of essential
workers below.
Tests for essential workers are prioritised over the tests available for the
wider public through the NHS.
In England, you can get tested if you’re a social care worker or resident in a
care home whether you have symptoms or not. See the guidance below on testing
for care home residents and workers.
There is further information available on tests in
Scotland, Wales and Northern
Ireland.
Guidance Coronavirus (COVID-19): getting tested
Care home residents and workers (England only)
If a care home suspects a resident has coronavirus symptoms
You should contact your local Health Protection Team
(HPT) if:

you suspect your care home has a new coronavirus outbreak
it has been 28 days or longer since your last case and you have new cases

Your HPT will provide advice and arrange the first tests.
For testing in other situations, you should apply for testing kits following
the instructions below.
How to test care home residents and workers
You can apply for coronavirus testing kits to test the residents and staff of
your care home. You can apply whether or not any of your residents or staff
have coronavirus symptoms.
This testing is currently only available in England.
At the moment, you can only get tests if your care home looks after older
people or people with dementia.
Apply for coronavirus tests for a care home
Workers with symptoms
Care home workers with symptoms should be self-isolating and can access
testing through the self-referral or employer referral portals, above.
See a visual guide to adult social care
testing
(PDF, 68.4KB, 1 page).
Information about testing kits
There are 2 types of test kits delivered to care homes:

Randox test kits
all other types, known as Kingfisher test kits

The test kits look similar and test for whether someone currently has
coronavirus in the same way. You will be told which test kits you will be
using when you receive confirmation of your delivery. All of these kits are
throat and nose swab tests and will tell a person whether they had coronavirus
at the time the test took place. They cannot tell a person if they have had
coronavirus in the past.
Watch a video on how to administer nasal and throat swabs for residents:
Coronavirus test tutorial for care homes with Dr Sarah
Jarvis
Carers and nurses who will be swabbing residents in care homes should complete
the online care home swabbing competency assessment before carrying out
swabbing.
Individuals can register at
www.genqa.org/carehomes or care home
managers can create an organisational account by contacting
info@genqa.org.
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