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The rise in unregistered alternative provision where teachers require neither qualifications nor criminal record checks

The term ghost children, those who miss over half of school sessions, was first used when it emerged 100,000 youngsters who had been at school before Covid failed to make it back (stock image).

Aftershock is an occasional podcast series by award-winning journalist Isabel Hardman. In every episode she asks how we can fix the damage caused by the pandemic to a different part of British society. In this episode, Isabel looks at how schoolchildren have been affected by 18 months of lockdowns and remote schooling. Some have been