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New £302m ‘Covid recovery premium’ to be allocated based on pupil premium

The government’s new £302 million “Covid recovery premium” will be allocated to schools on the same basis as the...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE pledges £302m ‘recovery premium’ for schools and £200m summer schools fund for secondaries

Schools will split a £302 million “recovery premium” to support catch-up and secondaries will get £200 million to run...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Government to research ‘harms’ caused by Covid-19 to pupils and staff

The Department for Education is to commission research into how Covid-19 has impacted pupils and staff. The “rapid” data...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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England outspends Wales and Northern Ireland on catch-up, but funding is ‘poorly-targeted’

England has committed the second highest amount of funding for pupil catch-up schemes out of the four nations in...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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‘We don’t want these volunteers’ – heads reject catch-up proposal and demand more cash

Headteachers have rejected suggestions that volunteers could supervise extra lessons and summer schools, warning that more cash and opportunities...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Sir Kevan Collins Q&A: Covid innovations can drive catch-up challenge

The new ‘education recovery’ commissioner believes Covid innovations such as virtual classes can be used to extend the school...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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‘All ideas on the table’ says catch-up tsar as Johnson won’t rule out extending school term

All ideas to address lost learning should be “on the table”, the government’s new catch-up tsar has said, after...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Extra uni or college year could ‘solve lost learning’ says social mobility commissioner

An extra year at university or college could solve pupils’ lost learning, a social mobility champion has suggested. Sammy...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
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DfE’s Covid catch-up scheme set for expansion

The government is aiming to nearly double the number of children who will next year receive tuition under its...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth