The risk of children’s education not recovering from the pandemic is at crisis level, a Department for Education report has warned.
Officials rated the risk of children failing to recover from the impact of the pandemic, and a subsequent widening of the attainment gap between rich and poor pupils, as “Crisis — Likely, or Critical — Very Likely.”
Education recovery was listed as one of six key risks in the Department for Education’s annual report, which raised fears that if children do not sufficiently make up for the lessons missed during Covid, then poorer children and those with special educational needs will drop further behind.
It comes after watchdog Ofsted warned that children’s recovery from the pandemic was being hampered by a workforce crisis which means there are not enough teachers in schools and nurseries.
