PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Schools: Coronavirus (7 December 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional financial support his Department has allocated to schools in Enfield to support (a) cleanliness and hygiene and (b) the recruitment of supply teachers in cases where teachers are having to self-isolate since the start of the covid-19 outbreak.

Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)

The first window for schools to claim funding back for exceptional costs incurred due to the COVID-19 outbreak, between March and July 2020, closed on 21 July. Payments against claims made within the published scope of the fund were made to schools and academies in September. Schools in Enfield have received the following payments for additional cleaning costs required due to confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases, over and above the cost of existing cleaning arrangements.

School Name	Local Authority	Additional Cleaning Costs Claim
Eversley Primary School	Enfield	£ 16,394
Russet House School	Enfield	£ 10,061
Durants School	Enfield	£ 8,461
Garfield Primary School	Enfield	£ 8,103
Meridian Angel Primary School	Enfield	£ 4,233
De Bohun Primary School	Enfield	£ 3,534
The Raglan Junior School	Enfield	£ 3,426
Waverley School	Enfield	£ 3,391
Bush Hill Park Primary School	Enfield	£ 2,920
Forty Hill CofE Primary School	Enfield	£ 1,958
Oakthorpe Primary School	Enfield	£ 1,813
Suffolks Primary School	Enfield	£ 1,619
Highfield Primary School	Enfield	£ 1,505
Latymer All Saints CofE Primary School	Enfield	£ 1,488
St John and St James CofE Primary School	Enfield	£ 1,416
West Grove Primary School	Enfield	£ 1,294
Alma Primary School	Enfield	£ 1,282
St Anne's Catholic High School for Girls	Enfield	£ 1,250
Keys Meadow Primary School	Enfield	£ 1,155
St Andrew's CofE Primary School	Enfield	£ 1,105
Worcesters Primary School	Enfield	£ 1,064
Houndsfield Primary School	Enfield	£ 998
Raynham Primary School	Enfield	£ 790
Wilbury Primary School	Enfield	£ 750
Galliard Primary School	Enfield	£ 750
Fleecefield Primary School	Enfield	£ 750
Brettenham Primary School	Enfield	£ 750
St Andrew's Southgate Primary School (CE)	Enfield	£ 511
St Michael at Bowes CofE Junior School	Enfield	£ 284
Hadley Wood Primary School	Enfield	£ 113

Schools can now claim for any costs that fell between March and July in the same approved categories, for which they did not claim during the first window. Schools can make claims here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/claiming-exceptional-costs-associated-with-coronavirus-covid-19/exceptional-costs-associated-with-coronavirus-covid-19--2.

In addition to this, the Department has announced details of a new COVID-19 workforce fund for schools and colleges to help them remain open: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-workforce-fund-for-schools/coronavirus-covid-19-workforce-fund-to-support-schools-with-costs-of-staff-absences-from-1-november-2020-to-31-december-2020. It will fund the costs of teacher absences over a threshold in schools and colleges, and is intended for those with high staff absences that are also facing significant financial pressures. The Department expects schools to be able to claim for workforce costs relating to November and December 2020 in spring 2021. Schools will be able to incur additional costs, backdated to November, in the knowledge that they will be reimbursed if they meet the relevant criteria.

Answered by:
Nick Gibb (Conservative)
17 December 2020