Guidance

Coronavirus (COVID-19) recovery premium funding: allocations and conditions of grant 2023 to 2024

Allocations and terms and conditions for academies and local authorities about the recovery premium grant for academic year 2023 to 2024.

Applies to England

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Recovery premium (RP) grant provides additional funding for state-funded schools in England to support the education recovery of disadvantaged pupils following the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Schools and local authorities must follow the terms and conditions set out in the RP conditions of grant.

Published allocations

Allocations will be published ahead of each instalment of RP grant.

The first instalment of RP grant for the 2023 to 2024 academic year was paid in September 2023 to local authorities and in October 2023 to academies.

The second instalment was paid to local authorities in December 2023 and in January 2024 to academies.

The third instalment was paid to local authorities in March 2024 and to academies in April 2024 .

Allocations will also be published in June 2024.

Further information

For more information, you can read the RP overview.

Published 30 March 2023
Last updated 25 March 2024 + show all updates
  1. We have added the allocations that reflect payments for March/April 2024.

  2. We have published the COVID-19 recovery premium allocations for December 2023

  3. We have published the allocations for September 2023.

  4. First published.