catch-up funding | Schools Week

Most schools didn’t complete £17m early language catch-up scheme

Ministers announced in 2021 that every primary school would be offered support through the scheme

Spending review: Ex-recovery tsar blasts ‘meagre’ £1.8m catch-up cash

Sir Kevan Collins says catch-up funding ‘incredible disappointing’

Johnson claims catch-up tsar’s evidence for a longer school day ‘not as good as it could have been’

Evidence put forward as part of proposals to extend the school day “was not as good as it could have been”, the prime minister has claimed. In a swipe at his own former catch-up tsar Sir Kevan Collins, Boris Johnson told MPs at the parliamentary liaison committee: “If I’m absolutely frank with you and the […]

£15 billion extra needed for Covid lost learning recovery, EPI says

The government would need to invest an additional £15 billion in order to fulfil Boris Johnson’s pledge to make up pupils’ lost learning during the Covid pandemic, a new report has claimed. Prime minister Johnson previously stated that establishing a long-term catch-up plan is “the biggest priority” and no child would be “left behind”. But […]