mary bousted co general secretary at the national education union. thank you, mary, for coming in with us and to both of you forjoining us. remember the government s catch up tsar ? kevin collins was appointed to coordinate the school recovery across england. his message to the government was: it ll cost you , up to £15 billion, we re told, to help pupils to catch up on the learning they ve missed. boris johnson balked at that figure, apparently. in all, the treasury has allocated £3.1 billion about 12 billion less than kevin collins advised. he resigned. you don t have that luxury. how hard is this process of catch up? it is very hard, it s important to talk about the context, over a ten year period schools have faced pretty serious declines in our resourcing, budgets and capacity so now we are faced with unprecedented circumstances to try and help students to catch up not only on their learning but in vital social interaction
at the national education union. thank you, mary, for coming in with us and to both of you forjoining us. remember the government s catch up tsar ? kevin collins was appointed to coordinate the school recovery across england. his message to the government was: it ll cost you , up to £15 billion, we re told, to help pupils to catch up on the learning they ve missed. boris johnson balked at that figure, apparently. in all, the treasury has allocated £3.1 billion about 12 billion less than kevin collins advised. he resigned. you don t have that luxury. how hard is this process of catch up? it is very hard, it s important to talk about the context, over a ten year period schools have faced pretty serious declines in our resourcing,
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in a row over covid catch up funding. sir kevan was meant to be developing a long term plan to help pupils make up for lost learning during the pandemic. but he stepped down, saying the government s funding for the plan fell far short of what was needed. downing street said that more than £3 billion had been committed to the catch up so far. when he appeared before the education committee, the education secretary, gavin williamson, was asked for his response to sir kevan s criticism. injune last year, we announced the billion pound package to help children in terms of catch up. we sawjust earlier on this year a further £700 million, and just earlier this month, a further £1.11 billion, and as the prime minister himself has said, this is part of that ongoing process. we have to look very closely at the evidence, and, you know, of actually where the learning loss is and making sure that we
has resigned, saying the government s funding package is not enough. sir kevan collins took on the role february to develop a long term plan to help pupils make up for lost learning during the pandemic. he says the £11; bilion allocated by the government falls far short of what is needed . here s our education editor, branwenjeffreys. it is in towns like hartlepool that children have fallen further behind. earlier this year, the prime minister said this was his top priority. it this was his top priority. it is this was his top priority. it is the loss of learning that so many children and young people, thatis many children and young people, that is the thing we have to focus on now as a society. 50 focus on now as a society. so what does focus on now as a society. so what does the government s catch up promise mean for this primary and secondary school? giving children back their voice. it