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DfE had no plan for dealing with a pandemic, says critical report by MPs

“Online learning was inaccessible to many children even in later lockdowns and there is no commitment to ongoing additional funding for IT. Schools will be expected to fund laptops out of their existing, and already squeezed, budgets.” Hillier said the DfE “appears uninterested in learning lessons from earlier in the pandemic,” preferring to wait for later public inquiries. “It shows little energy and determination to ensure that its catch-up offer is sufficient to undo the damage of the past 14 months,” Hillier said. The report, after hearings conducted by the bipartisan committee, was deeply critical of the DfE’s failings towards children with special educational needs and disabilities, many of who struggled with remote learning, and over the future of the more than one million digital devices it had distributed to schools at a cost of £400m.

Schools set to lose £118m funding for poor pupils

BBC News Published image captionSchools in England face funding cuts for poorer pupils Schools in England could lose £118m funding for poor pupils this year, the Local Government Association says. The education department is bringing forward the annual date for counting those eligible for the pupil premium, which it says will help plan budgets. Pupils who have become eligible between October 2020 and January 2021 will not now be counted until October 2021. The government said a typical school will see an increase in its pupil premium allocations this year. An LGA survey suggests the new move will add up to a loss of about £93m for primary schools and £25m for secondary schools.

Parents evenings to stay on Zoom after pandemic

BBC News By Cristina Criddle image copyrightGetty Images Parents evenings are likely to remain virtual beyond the pandemic, the government s education catch-up tsar has said. Sir Kevan Collins told the Lord’s Youth Unemployment Committee video calls were a “better way” to conduct the evenings. The way that schools do parents’ evenings I don’t think will ever be the same again,” he said. The National Association of Head Teachers said it hoped to see a hybrid model for such events in the future. Car-parking space “We know [virtual meetings] have often made it easier for parents to attend appointments and have also made it easier for schools to manage the logistics,” general secretary Paul Whiteman said.

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