Government shares plan to catch-up on education lost to pandemic

In early June, the Department for Education announced the government’s latest plan to support children and young people who have missed chunks of their education as a result of the pandemic.

At the time, the announcement was covered extensively in the media, primarily for the resignation of the education recovery ‘tsar’ Sir Kevan Collins.

However, as part of their plan, the Department for Education also provided a factsheet to stakeholders, including Prospect.

The factsheet gives a brief analysis of the impact of lost education, not just on children and young people’s attainment, but on wellbeing and mental health

Prospect members can download the factsheet here.

On some of the details to be found within the factsheet, Prospect national secretary Steve Thomas said:

“While the vast majority of funding is to be directed to tutoring there is ‘new funding’ to extend the Early Career Framework rollout and for middle and late career National Professional Qualifications.

“In addition, Prospect is particularly interested in the £153m set aside for ‘evidence-based professional development for early years practitioners’ and keen to understand more detail about this.”