Guidance

Coronavirus (COVID-19) testing in schools and colleges: grant funding

Conditions of grant funding for the national roll-out of rapid mass testing for coronavirus (COVID-19) in schools and colleges.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 2 February 2021
• Last updated: 2 June 2021
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  1. 2 June 2021

     Updated with information on payments for testing conducted in summer term 2021.

  2. 7 May 2021

     Updated the conditions of grant document for funding for testing.

  3. 7 April 2021

     We've updated the conditions of grant to include the payment arrangements for independent special schools and to clarify some of the important dates.

  4. 2 February 2021

     First published.

This publication was withdrawn on 28 September 2021

This guidance has now been replaced by Coronavirus (COVID-19) National Testing Programme: conditions of grant from August 2021.

Applies to England

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) National Testing Programme: conditions of grant

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These conditions of grant funding cover the roll-out of rapid mass testing from 4 January until 23 July 2021.

The document sets out the:

• scope
• eligibility
• allocations and payments approach
• terms of the funding