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<p>In addition to the department’s ambitious wider spending review settlement for
schools and 16-19 settings; since June 2020 nearly £5 billion in education recovery
funding to support children and young people recover from the COVID-19 outbreak has
been announced. The department’s recovery programmes allow early years, school and
college leaders to support those pupils most in need to help them catch-up. This includes
the catch-up premium in the 2020/21 academic year and the recovery premium in the
2021/22 academic year. Using evidenced based interventions, this funding can also
be used to tackle non-academic barriers to success in school, such as enrichment activities
like arts and sport.</p><p> </p><p>The department has also committed £200 million
for secondary schools to deliver face-to-face summer schools in summer 2021, giving
secondary pupils access to enrichment activities, such as games, music, drama and
sports that they have missed out on over the COVID-19 outbreak. Almost 2,800 secondary
schools across England signed up to host a summer school, this will have helped to
support physical and mental health and wellbeing.</p><p> </p><p>The government is
committed to high-quality education for all pupils, and integral to this are the arts
and music. The department provides significant funding for a range of cultural education
programmes, including music, which schools can access – over £620 million between
2016 to 2021, additional to core school budgets. We confirmed £80 million funding
for this financial year, 2021-22, for music programmes; and we continue to provide
just over £4 million for a set of tailored arts programmes. We will continue to invest
around £115 million per annum in cultural education over the next three years, though
our music, arts and heritage programmes, working closely with the Department for Digital,
Culture, Media and Sport, Arts Council England and others.</p><p> </p><p>Alongside
this, schools have continued to receive their core funding throughout the COVID-19
outbreak. The recent spending review announced that core funding for schools will
rise by a further £4.7 billion by 2024-25, compared to previous plans, this builds
on the largest school funding increase in a decade at the 2019 spending round.</p><p>
</p><p>Collectively, this will support schools to deliver a broad and ambitious curriculum
and enrichment activities.</p>
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