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It explains the purpose of the scheme—supporting disadvantaged children during Easter, summer and Christmas holidays with enriching activities and a healthy meal—along with the one-year support contract rationale. The document sets out evaluation expectations, required monitoring data, eligible funding use, and operational requirements for activity, meals, accessibility and transport support.","Essex ActivAte 2021\nDelivery Partner Guidance notes\nWhy is the Department for Education investing funding in a Country wide holiday Activity and Food programme (HAF)?\nSchool holidays can be pressure points for some families because of increased costs and reduced incomes. Some children are more likely to experience ‘unhealthy holidays’ in terms of nutrition and physical health. Some children from lower-income families are less likely to access fun activities. Free holiday clubs are a response to this issue.\nWhy is the support contract only for a year?\nAs part of the Spending Review, the Government established a £220 million Holiday Activities and Food programme to provide enriching activities and a healthy meal for disadvantaged children in the Easter, summer, and Christmas holidays in 2021. This provides funding up to the end of 2021-22 and supports the Government’s commitment to establish a Flexible Childcare Fund to increase the availability of high quality and affordable flexible childcare.\nWill there be a national evaluation programme?\nAn evaluation will be undertaken this year to assess the impact the programme has had and will focus on delivery across the summer. This will be undertaken by a national provider, as allocated by the Department for Education’s tendering process. We expect all delivery partners to cooperate with the evaluation of the HAF programme. We will provide more information when we receive this from the Department for Education.\nWhat will the monitoring and evaluation requirements be of the Essex ActivAte programme?\nEvery Essex ActivAte programme will need to provide the following monitoring information:\nThe number of individual and unique children that you have supported over the 2021 holidays\nOf those participating children, what percentage were eligible for FSM?\nHow many days did participating children attend on average?\nThe percentage of primary children and the percentage of secondary children that participated\nBreakdown of participant numbers including age, gender, ethnicity if possible\nAt least 1 good news story or case study – Template will be provided\nAny anecdotal feedback you collect as deliverers shared\nActive Essex will Provide Feedback forms for Parents and providers\nCan we use HAF money to fund holiday provision over the February half-term or beyond Christmas 2021?\nThe funding for HAF is to cover holiday provision for Easter, summer and Christmas 2021.\nCan HAF funding be used to pay for transport costs to enable children to access the provision?\nWe want provision to be accessible for all FSM-eligible children who want to attend. If you identify children who would like to attend and do not have provision within easy reach, you can fund transport costs for them to access the provision.\nCan the funding be used for delivery of activity outside of holiday periods where it supports the holiday provision?\nNo, the funding is for the provision of free holiday clubs (including food) during the 2021 Easter, summer and Christmas holidays.\nHow much funding should be allocated to meals and will there be any funding restrictions in terms of the split between paying for food vs. activities?\nThere is no fixed amount. For reference, the Department for Education allocate around £2.34 per pupil per meal for free school meals during term time. There are also no restrictions in terms of how much you spend on food vs activities. Previous HAF providers have provided food through a variety of arrangements, for example, using school or community kitchens, food delivered and prepped at the club, use of food intervention charities, the approach will often depend on the set up of the individual provider.\nIs provision only funded for FSM children aged 5-16 (so not Early Years or post 16s)?\nYes, the funding is for school-aged children only. 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