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Education Recovery in Schools

Status: Closed Opened: 20 Jan 2023 Closed: 24 Sep 2023 6 recommendations 23 conclusions 1 report

The disruption to schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic led to learning loss, particularly in certain parts of the country and among children with special educational needs and disabilities, and disadvantaged children. In response to the loss of learning the Department for Education (DfE) developed various catch-up learning initiatives for the 2020/21 school year, which it …

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Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
Fifty-Fifth Report - Education recovery in schools in Engla… HC 998 7 Jun 2023 29 Responded

Recommendations & Conclusions

6 items
5 Recommendation Fifty-Fifth Report - Education recovery… Not Addressed

Publish progress measures for 2030 attainment targets, starting with primary pupils, and report annually

The Department has no interim targets to track progress towards the 2030 attainment ambitions set out in the Schools White Paper. The Department has not specified the impact it wants to achieve from its interventions to support education recovery because it regards these as part of its wider efforts to …

Government response. The government response provided addresses a different set of recommendations from the Public Accounts Committee concerning investment, and therefore does not engage with the substance of the recommendation regarding education attainment targets.
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1 Conclusion Fifty-Fifth Report - Education recovery… Not Addressed

Committee commenced inquiry into Department for Education's school education recovery programme

On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence from the Department for Education (the Department) on education recovery in schools.2

Government response. The government acknowledges that the Committee took evidence from the Department for Education about education recovery in schools based on a report by the National Audit Office.
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6 Conclusion Fifty-Fifth Report - Education recovery…

COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted young people's mental health, necessitating whole-school approach

Evidence submissions from the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition, Young Minds and Adoption UK highlighted the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had had on young people’s mental health.10 The Department agreed with Young Minds’ recommendation calling for a whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing, and said that …

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21 Conclusion Fifty-Fifth Report - Education recovery…

Department shares best practice and leverages data for National Tutoring Programme targeting and evaluation.

The Department told us of a number of ways it had been sharing best practice on the National Tutoring Programme. These included offering direct support to schools and having webinars and shared promotions and research. It highlighted in particular research by the Education Endowment Foundation and the National Foundation for …

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Oral evidence sessions

1 session
Date Witnesses
9 Mar 2023 Andrew McCully · Department for Education, Graham Archer · Department for Education, Susan Acland-Hood · The Department for Education View ↗

Correspondence

1 letter
DateDirectionTitle
17 Apr 2023 — Correspondence from Susan Acland-Hood, Permanent Secretary, Department for Educ…