Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much her Department allocated to Solihull Council through the Summer Schools Grant.

As part of the department’s almost £5 billion education recovery package to support children and young people of all ages in catching up on missed education and development, funding was made available for demand-led summer schools in summer 2021 so children, particularly those in transitionary years, could access some of the fundamental teaching and enrichment activities that are so vitally important to development.

The allocations made available to each eligible secondary school by local authority in England, can be accessed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-summer-schools-programme-funding.

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council was allocated a maximum of £122,802.90 for its maintained schools. This funding was demand-led and, overall, claims for actual costs was less than that allocated.

Maintained schools received their funding via the local authority, and academies received their funding directly in the October/November 2021 funding round.