Extracurricular Activities: Finance
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make a comparative assessment of the effectiveness of allocating £22.5 million under the Enrichment Expansion Programme (a) across up to 400 schools and (b) via a single national delivery partner.
Answered by Stephanie Peacock
The Enrichment Expansion Programme (EEP) will invest £22.5 million across 3 years to support up to 400 schools to provide a youth-voice led, tailored enrichment offer.
Through the EEP, DCMS is providing £16.8m grant funding to a delivery partner to enhance the coordination of enrichment provision and to support secondary schools to improve their offer.
£2.8 million will be allocated separately to school grants to cover staff costs associated with improving their enrichment offer.
The funding requirement has been benchmarked against related enrichment programmes.
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