Methodology for education costs for asylum seekers <br />The UK reports estimated costs for education asylum-seeking children of compulsory school age within their first 12 months of UK support as ODA in line with the clarified DAC directives. Education costs of resettled refugees are included separately within the resettlement programme costs and are not included within these estimates. The calculation of ODA-eligible education support is carried out as follows:<br /> <br />(1) Establish the number of asylum-seeking children eligible for education support. The UK uses s95 and UASC data stock figures as described above as the basis of the estimate. Only education of asylum seekers up to and including year 11 at secondary school (students aged 15-16 years old) is reported as ODA in line with the DAC clarifications. The asylum seeker figures are separated into early years, primary and secondary education according to age breakdowns of the three types of stock figures.<br />(2) A daily unit cost for each level of education is estimated. The unit costs are worked out by using the relevant year’s funding levels. These are used to estimate the average amount of funding per pupil split by early years, primary and secondary. The unit cost estimates for primary and secondary age are based on various assumptions, such as that all asylum-seeking children of primary and secondary age would attract deprivation pupil premium funding to their school, and those of primary age would attract PE and Sport Premium funding.<br />(3) Unit costs are then applied to the number of asylum seeker support days in each education level. This gives the total spend for each type of education support. <br /> <br />(4) Totals by education level are summed to give an estimate of the total UK estimated spend on education support for asylum-seeking children. <br />Methodology for health costs associated with asylum seekers <br />27. The UK reports costs for the publicly-funded healthcare for asylum seekers within their first 12 months of support as ODA. Health costs of resettled refugees are included separately within the resettlement program costs and therefore are not included within these estimates. The calculation of ODA-eligible health support is carried out as follows:<br />(1) Obtain the number of asylum seekers eligible for health support. The UK uses s95, UASC and s98 data as the basis of the estimate (see above subsections for extra detail on these data sources). The totals of these three types of asylum seekers are added together to give the total number of asylum seeker supported days.<br />(2) Average per head unit costs are then applied to the number of asylum seeker support days – this gives total spend. The unit cost is calculated by using the asylum seeker age profile to apply a specific age-related head costs to different age groups. This is then summed and used to calculate an average per head. <br />After multiplication, the UK then rounds the total spend to the nearest thousand. This gives the UK total costs for asylum seeker health care.