Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee warned that children face a “lost decade” in learning because the Government has failed to adequately address the effects of various Covid lockdowns on schools poppyeh reports
The report cited recent figures showing that 13 per cent of schools in England failed to take up the National Tutoring Programme recovery scheme in the 2021/22 academic year, despite it being touted as a key plank of the Government’s education recovery programme.
“The consequences of a lost decade in progress narrowing the gap in attainment for disadvantaged children are immeasurable,” she said. It called on the DfE to set out immediate steps to reverse the widening disparity in students’ results in the wake of the pandemic, after the primary school attainment gap index jumped to 3.23 in 2022, up from 2.90 in 2018 and marking the highest level in 10 years.
The DfE last week announced plans to launch a series of “attendance hubs” aimed at slashing absence rates in schools, with minister Nick Gibb admitting that despite a slight recovery “the pandemic has still had a real impact on pupil absence in school”. “The committee’s assertion that the Department for Education does not appreciate the pressures facing schools is a damning indictment of the department’s failure to listen to the evidence.”
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