Coronavirus (COVID-19) data on funding claims by institutions
Source: gov.uk (2025-07-03)

Payments made to institutions for claims made to ESFA for various grants including, but not exclusively, coronavirus (COVID-19) support grants.

The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025. All activity has moved to the Department for Education (DfE). You should continue to follow this guidance.

This page outlines payments made to institutions for claims they have made to ESFA for various grants. These include, but are not exclusively, COVID-19 support grants. Information on funding for grants based on allocations will be on the specific page for the grant.

Claim-based grants included

Senior mental health lead training (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/senior-mental-health-lead-training-grant-funding/senior-mental-health-lead-training-conditions-of-grant--3)

Financial assistance towards the cost of training a senior member of school or college staff in mental health and wellbeing in the 2021 to 2022, 2022 to 2023, 2023 to 2024 and 2024 to 2025 financial years. The information provided is for payments up to the end of March 2025.

COVID-19 16 to 19 tuition fund 2020 to 2021 and 2021 to 2022 (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/16-to-19-funding-16-to-19-tuition-fund)

Funding for eligible 16 to 19 institutions to deliver small group and/or one-to-one tuition for disadvantaged students and those with low prior attainment to help support education recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Due to continued pandemic disruption during academic year 2020 to 2021 some institutions carried over funding from academic year 2020 to 2021 to 2021 to 2022.

Therefore, any considerations of spend or spend against funding allocations should be considered across both years.

School funding: exceptional costs associated with coronavirus (COVID-19) (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-financial-support-for-schools)

Financial assistance available to schools to cover increased premises, free school meals and additional cleaning-related costs associated with keeping schools open over the Easter and summer holidays in 2020, during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) free school meals: additional costs (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-free-school-meals-additional-costs/coronavirus-covid-19-free-school-meals-additional-costs-guidance)

Financial assistance available to meet the additional cost of the provision of free school meals to pupils and students where they were at home during term time, for the period January 2021 to March 2021.

Alternative provision: year 11 transition funding (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/alternative-provision-year-11-transition-funding)

Financial assistance for alternative provision settings to provide additional transition support into post-16 destinations for year 11 pupils from June 2020 until the end of the autumn term (December 2020). This has now been updated to include funding for support provided by alternative provision settings from May 2021 to the end of February 2022.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) 2021 qualifications fund for schools and colleges (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfe-exam-support-service-claiming-costs)

Financial assistance for schools, colleges and other exam centres to run exams and assessments during the period October 2020 to March 2021 (or for functional skills qualifications, October 2020 to December 2020). Now updated to include claims for eligible costs under the 2021 qualifications fund for the period October 2021 to March 2022.

National tutoring programme: academic mentors programme grant (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/academic-mentors-programme-grant-conditions-of-funding)

Financial assistance for mentors’ salary costs on the academic mentors programme, from the start of their training until 31 July 2021, with adjustment for any withdrawals.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) mass testing funding for schools and colleges: exceptional costs (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-mass-testing-funding-for-schools-and-colleges)

Details of exceptional costs claims made by schools and colleges that had to hire additional premises or make significant alterations to their existing premises to conduct mass testing.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) workforce fund for schools (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-workforce-fund-for-schools) and Coronavirus (COVID-19) workforce fund for colleges (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-workforce-fund-for-colleges)

Financial assistance for eligible costs relating to staff absences during the period November 2020 to December 2020. Now updated to include claims for costs during the period 22 November 2021 to 8 April 2022.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) summer schools programme funding (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-summer-schools-programme-funding)

Financial assistance for schools to provide face-to-face summer schools during the 2021 school summer holidays to pupils identified by the school as being most in need of educational recovery and/or wellbeing support.

Get help with technology programme (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/get-help-with-technology-conditions-of-internet-access-and-device-grants)

Financial assistance to support the costs associated with supporting children and young people to gain internet access where face-to-face education was disrupted due to coronavirus (COVID-19), and the set-up costs of DfE laptops given out as part of the scheme. This covers costs incurred between September 2021 to February 2022.