Official statistics are produced impartially and free from political influence.

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.

Claim-based grants included

Senior mental health lead training

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.

COVID-19 16 to 19 tuition fund 2020 to 2021 and 2021 to 2022

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.

School funding: exceptional costs associated with coronavirus (COVID-19)

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.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) free school meals: additional costs

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.

Alternative provision: year 11 transition funding

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.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) 2021 qualifications fund for schools and colleges

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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These reports summarise the surveillance of influenza, COVID-19 and other seasonal respiratory illnesses.

Weekly findings from community, primary care, secondary care and mortality surveillance systems are included in the reports.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for the 2021 to 2022 season the weekly reports will be published all year round.

This page includes reports published from 15 July 2021 to the present.

Due to a misclassification of 2 subgroups within the Asian and Asian British and Black and Black British ethnic categories, the proportions of deaths for these ethnic categories in reports published between week 27 2021 and week 29 2021 were incorrect. These have been corrected from week 30 2021 report onwards. The impact of the correction specifically affects the proportion of deaths with an Asian and Asian British and/or Black and Black British ethnic categories. The total number of deaths reported was unaffected. Other ethnicity data included in the reports were not affected by this issue.

Previous reports on influenza surveillance are also available for:

• 2020 to 2021 season
• 2019 to 2020 season
• 2018 to 2019 season
• 2017 to 2018 season
• 2016 to 2017 season
• 2015 to 2016 season
• 2014 to 2015 season
• 2013 to 2014 season

Reports from spring 2013 and earlier are available on https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20140629102650tf_/http://www.hpa.org.uk/Publications/InfectiousDiseases/Influenza/" class="govuk-link">the UK Government Web Archive.

View previous COVID-19 surveillance reports.

This release provides estimates of coronavirus (COVID-19) related support schemes, grants and loans made to farms in England. Data are based on farms participating in the Farm Business Survey and are representative only of the survey population. The data covers the period March 2020 to February 2021, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The wording of this release was updated on the 17th January 2022 to clarify terminology relating to the Farm Business Survey population. There were no changes to any of the previously published figures.

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The WICH monitoring tool collates metrics across a range of wider impacts to provide stakeholders with a single point of access. This will enable stakeholders to:

• monitor changes over time or against an agreed point in time
• make timely, informed decisions
• intervene early to mitigate against poor outcomes
• understand the wider context on population health

The WICH tool was first published on 16 July 2020. Since then, we have continually developed the tool to include additional metrics and make it easier to use.

On 1 October 2021, Public Health England (PHE) closed and responsibility for the WICH tool transferred to the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID).

On 5 November 2020, PHE published an in-depth commentary and associated tables on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on grocery shopping behaviours during the period March to June 2020.

Please send any questions or comments to pha-ohid@dhsc.gov.uk

This release provides information on:

• confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases for students and staff known to providers
• estimates for number of self-isolating students
• estimated cases per 100,000 for students and staff (autumn term only)
• numbers of providers by their higher education tiers of restriction (autumn term only)

The release was updated on 26 April with data up to 7 April.

Official statistics are produced impartially and free from political influence.

This is a record of the discussion of SAGE 99 on 16 December 2021. The paper is the assessment of the evidence at the time of writing. As new evidence or data emerges, SAGE updates its advice accordingly.

These documents are released as pre-print publications that have provided the government with rapid evidence during an emergency. These documents have not been peer-reviewed and there is no restriction on authors submitting and publishing this evidence in peer-reviewed journals.

Redactions within this document have been made to remove any names of junior officials (under SCS) or names of anyone for national security reasons. SAGE 99 includes redactions of 21 junior officials.

This is a list of names of participants who have taken part in meetings of SAGE and related sub-groups during the coronavirus pandemic.

Permission to publish names was requested from all participants. Those who did not give permission have not been named.

Find out more about SAGE.