Despite the many challenges they were already coping with, schools met the huge additional pressures of the pandemic head on. Now, with the ink not yet dry on the government’s schools white paper and SEND green paper, I know I will not be a popular man for suggesting there is yet another new report that requires schools’ attention. But there is.
I must declare an interest: I was the review’s working-level contact in my last role at the DfE, which I left last summer. I’ve moved on, while Josh MacAlister steadfastly spent over a year independently reviewing the children’s social care system, and we all have an interest in the outcome, published last month.
