Afghanistan resettlement education grant
Updated 29 March 2023
Applies to England
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Purpose
You must only use this funding for the education and childcare of children aged 2 to 18. They must be from families arriving from Afghanistan and currently in bridging accommodation. Examples of what you can spend this funding on include providing:
- places for 2, 3 and 4 year olds accessing the 2 year old, universal or 30 hours entitlements
- suitable places for all other children up to the age of 18, including time for staff resource and travel
- funding for the costs of extra specialist teaching, non-teaching and administrative staff
- travel arrangements to help a child’s attendance at school or suitable setting
- specialist services and resources, such as support for children with additional needs or education materials
- free school meals and school uniform, including, for example, school bags or water bottles
- access to extra-curricular activities for example, sports
- community services whose provision benefits the children
- other reasonable costs associated with the providing support for these children
The funding can benefit either a group or all the children in your area who are in bridging accommodation.
For any funding you give to the child’s setting, make sure your processes for allocating the funds are simple to avoid any delays.
You can allocate the funding to independent schools and independent special schools. Consult with schools about how to use funding on extra educational support to raise the attainment for the eligible pupils.
Conditions
You can carry the funding from the 2022 to 2023 financial year forward into the 2023 to 2024 financial year. You must spend it by 31 March 2024.
If you house a child’s family in temporary accommodation but the child has a school place in another local authority, you should send an appropriate amount of funding to that local authority.
Allocation
We allocated funding for the 2021 to 2022 financial year to local authorities who were housing families arriving from Afghanistan. This was part of Operation Warm Welcome.
We made 2 rounds of payments in December 2021 and March 2022. This covered costs you incurred in the periods:
- 1 September 2021 to 30 November 2021
- 1 December 2021 to 31 March 2022
Payments for the 2022 to 2023 financial year
Due to the continued pressures on the local authorities, we’re providing further funding on 31 March 2023. This is to cover costs you have incurred in the 2022 to 2023 financial year. We’ll base the allocations on March 2022 and November 2022 data from Home Office.
We’ll make payments at 50% of the funding tariff per dataset. This is to consider movements and minimise double counting. We have reduced the payments by any underspends from 2021 to 2022 allocations.
Funding tariffs
Funding tariffs are on a per-pupil basis for the 3 phases of education at the following annual rates:
- early years (ages 2 to 4) - £3,000
- primary - £6,580
- secondary - £8,755