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Initial estimates of staff and pupils testing positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19) across a sample of schools within selected local authority areas in England.
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Impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on young people and schools, including analysis of face coverings and remote learning, and breakdowns by age and sex where possible. Indicators from the Schools Infection Survey.
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This file contains weekly attendance data at local authority level for state-funded education settings for each Thursday excluding half term and Easter dates. The data is shown for each local authority and is further split by the following school phases:state-funded secondary schoolsstate-funded primary schoolsstate-funded special schoolsall state-funded schools.Data is in this file has not been scaled to account for non-response so it is not nationally representative.
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Explore Education Statistics data set Table 1 - Daily attendance in state funded schools during the COVID-19 outbreak From 1 September from Attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
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Estimates from the Schools Infection Survey of pupils testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Including breakdowns by age, sex and region where possible.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Analysis of homeschooling in Great Britain during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic from the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN). Data relate to homeschooling from the COVID-19 module of the OPN, collected between 13 January and February 2021
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The data on explore education statistics shows attendance in education settings since Monday 23 March 2020, and in early years settings since Thursday 16 April 2020. The summary explains the responses for a set time frame.
The data is collected from a daily education settings status form and a weekly local authority early years survey.
Previously published data and summaries are available at attendance in education and early years settings during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
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This weekly data shows the cumulative number of positive Covid-19 cases in Angus school clusters - combined total of teachers, support staff, children and young people (not including contractors). The dataset is updated fortnightly on a Tuesday. Field names. Cumulative confirmed cases in Brechin. Cumulative confirmed cases in Carnoustie. Cumulative confirmed cases in Forfar. Cumulative confirmed cases in Kirriemuir. Cumulative confirmed cases in Monifieth. Cumulative confirmed cases in Montrose. Cumulative confirmed cases in North Arbroath. Cumulative confirmed cases in West Arbroath.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in school pupils aged 5 to 15 years attending state-funded schools. Including detailed analysis by demographic and geographic characteristics. Experimental statistics.
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All education settings were closed except for vulnerable children and the children of key workers due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak from Friday 20 March 2020.
From 1 June, the government asked schools to welcome back children in nursery, reception and years 1 and 6, alongside children of critical workers and vulnerable children. From 15 June, secondary schools, sixth form and further education colleges were asked to begin providing face-to-face support to students in year 10 and 12 to supplement their learning from home, alongside full time provision for students from priority groups.
The spreadsheet shows the numbers of teachers and children of critical workers in education since Monday 23 March and in early years settings since Thursday 16 April.
The summaries explain the responses for set time frames since 23 March 2020.
The data is collected from a daily education settings survey and a twice-weekly local authority early years survey.
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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.
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.
Financial assistance for additional transition support provided to year 11 pupils by alternative provision settings from June 2020 until the end of the autumn term (December 2020).
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).
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.
Financial assistance for schools and colleges to support them with costs they have incurred when conducting asymptomatic testing site (ATS) onsite testing, in line with departmental testing policy.
Details of payments included in the data cover the following periods:
| Phase | Period |
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| Phase 1 | 4 January 2021 to 5 March 2021 |
| Phases 2 and 3 | 6 March 2021 to 1 April 2021 |
| Phase 4 | 2 April 2021 to 23 July 2021 |
Also included are 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 testing from 4 January 2021 to 19 March 2021.
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The latest number of cases in the UK can be found here. For further information about the coronavirus pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.
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TwitterUnderstanding Society (the UK Household Longitudinal Study), which began in 2009, is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, and the survey research organisations Verian Group (formerly Kantar Public) and NatCen. It builds on and incorporates, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which began in 1991.
The Understanding Society COVID-19 Study is a regular survey of households in the UK. The aim of the study is to enable research on the socio-economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the short and long term. The surveys started in April 2020 and took place monthly until July 2020. From September 2020 they take place every other month. They complement the annual interviews in the Understanding Society study.
This dataset contains school code variables for the Understanding Society COVID-19 study (https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8644">SN 8644).
A file is provided for the fifth web wave of the Understanding Society COVID-19 study, the only one that school information has currently been gathered for. For each child it contains: state school code, country of state school, private school name and private school town variables for both mother and father responses. A child personal identification serial number (pidp_c) is also provided for matching to the main data in SN 8644.
In addition, this dataset contains a file of school code variables that can be matched to a dataset released with the main Understanding Society COVID-19 study containing data taken from waves 10 and 11 of the main Understanding Society survey specifically for the respondents in the Understanding Society COVID-19 study. Child school codes are only available for Wave 11 as they are only collected in odd-numbered waves. For each child it contains the state school code and country of state school variables as well as a personal identification serial number (pidp) and a household identification serial number for wave 11 (jk_hidp). Further details on the files in this dataset can be found in the Understanding Society COVID-19 User Guide.
Additional information can be found on the https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/topic/covid-19">Understanding Society COVID-19 website, including https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/covid-19">Data documentation. A list of https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/publications/subject/Covid%2019">Understanding Society COVID-19 Research Outputs (regularly updated) is also available.
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For the second edition (January 2021), both previously deposited files have been revised to include a significant number of additional school codes resulting from manual coding. For further details please refer to the UKHLS COVID-19: Data Changes document, included in the main COVID-19 study (SN 8644).
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This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings for dates excluding half term and Easter dates. Half term includes 19th October - 23rd October 2020, 2nd November 2020, and 15 February - 19 February 2021. Easter dates include 29 March 2021 - 19 April 2021.Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it is nationally representative.Further details on the column headings can be found in the “Table 1b variable additions and removal log” ancillary file.
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This file contains daily attendance data for state-funded education settings for dates excluding half term and Easter dates. Data is in this file has been scaled to account for non-response so it is nationally representative.Further details on the column headings can be found in the “Table 1b variable additions and removal log” ancillary file.
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