, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary,
responding to the Education Policy Institute’s report on the
funding needed to deliver on the Government’s education catch-up
promises, said:
“Boris Johnson has betrayed children by overpromising and
under-delivering on catch-up.
“After a decade of neglect of children’s learning, with rising
class sizes and increasing child poverty, the Conservatives’
catch-up funding amounts to a measly 43p per child a day. Their
inadequate, poorly targeted tutoring programme is leaving
thousands without support and they have no plan for children’s
wellbeing despite having had months away from their friends.
“Labour would put children at the heart of our national recovery.
We need catch-up breakfast clubs and a national strategy to
ensure every child recovers from the pandemic and is supported to
reach their full potential.”
Ends
Notes to editors:
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has claimed that his Government will ensure: “no
child is left behind as a result of the learning they have lost
over the past year”, with education catch-up as “the biggest
priority”, yet the investment and action does not match these
promises.
- 43p per day for each child
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Funding announced (2021)
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720,000,000
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Total school children in England
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8,890,357
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Days in school year
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190
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Spending per child per day
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0.43
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Source Govt funding: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-education-recovery-package-for-children-and-young-people
Source school year: The School Day and Year, House of Commons
Briefing Paper 2019, https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN07148/SN07148.pdf
- The Government’s national tutoring programme is inadequate a
poorly targeted reaching just 5 in 1,000 pupils in February:
Source: The National Audit Office report Support for children’s
education during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic
states: “At February 2021, 125,200 children had been
allocated a tutoring place across 3,984 schools. Of the 125,200
children allocated a tutoring place, 41,100 had started to
receive tuition, of whom 44% were eligible for pupil premium.
This raises questions over the extent to which the scheme will
reach the most disadvantaged children.” https://www.nao.org.uk/report/support-for-childrens-education-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Orlo&utm_content=Support+for+education
