Local Authority Grant funding to support the care of unaccompanied asylum seeking children and former unaccompanied asylum seeking children who are now care leavers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

A total of £5,612,727.91 grant funding will be allocated to 56 local authorities in 2021.

The Fund is for spend incurred no earlier than 1 June 2020 and no later than 20 November 2020 and for up to three months of costs only. Spend must either have been incurred in order to meet public health requirements relating to unaccompanied asylum seeking children, including the border health measures introduced on 8 June, or to meet increased costs of caring for unaccompanied asylum seeking children and former unaccompanied children who are now care leavers as a result of coronavirus (COVID-19). The latter includes costs incurred for this cohort as a result of wider pressures on services during the pandemic and costs incurred as a result of caring for children received through the National Transfer Scheme (NTS) in response to the urgent situation on the south coast.