The Department for Education had “no plan” and was “unprepared” for the coronavirus pandemic which caused “damage” to children, MPs have said.
The Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the Department for Education (DfE) seems “surprisingly resistant” to the idea of conducting a lessons-learned exercise on its early response to the pandemic.
When schools were closed to most pupils, the DfE “set no standards for in-school or remote learning during the rest of the school year”, meaning “children had very unequal experiences”, the report said.
Committee chairwoman Meg Hillier said the department’s apparent lack of interest in learning from the past shows “little determination” to ensure its catch-up offer is “sufficient” to undo the damage caused by the pandemic.
Department for Education had no plan for dealing with Covid disruption – MPs
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