would be delivered too slowly. today, the prime minister reassured schools and parents that more funding would be coming. of course they will be more coming down the track, but don t forget this is a huge amount on top of what we are already spending. a teacher s starting salary of £30,000. we are now doing the biggest tutoring programme anywhere in the world. there is no question many kids are incredibly resilient, they have recovered very well from the pandemic, but a lot need help to recover from the loss of learning that took place during the pandemic. all the evidence shows the best way to do that is to focus on the individual pupil, the individual child as much as possible. this is the man who
hasn t fully got started yet and i think the treasury is unwilling to spend huge sums of money on a particular department outside that process and so that is why we have ended up with something that, to the teaching unions, looks like a paltry sum of money compared to what was initially being talked about which was more than £10 billion on schools in england as part of this catch up programme. so what you ve got today is gavin williamson putting a brave face on it, saying he s doing as much as he can at this point in time to make a difference. i didn t and i don t think the prime minister or the chancellor did either, wanted to be in a situation where we are waiting for a comprehensive spending review to get money out of the door in order to be able to have a positive impact in terms of children s lives and that s why we ve done this quite unprecedented intervention outside of the spending period where we are actually getting an extra £1.4 billion in order to drive this tutoring prog
on new zealand in the first test. will keep you updated on that throughout the afternoon, that is all your support for now. the prime minister has said he can see nothing in the data at the moment that would prevent lockdown restrictions being eased onjune 21st in england, but said although it is frustrating the country must await the assessment of scientists. borisjohnson has also been talking about education funding. this is what he said a short time ago. of course, there is going to be more coming down the track, but don t forget this is a huge amount we are spending on top of the 1a billion we spent as soon as we came in to increase the funding for primary school children, for secondary school children, for secondary school children, for secondary school children, making sure each teacher started on a starting salary of £32,000. what we are now doing is the biggest tutoring programme anywhere in the world. there is no question that many kids are
week as too expensive. there is £1 billion extra today for tutoring for some pupils. but this school asked for 12 tutors this year and got two. what we re now doing is the biggest tutoring programme anywhere in the world. there s no question that many kids are incredibly resilient. they bounce back very well from the pandemic. but a lot of them also need help to catch up, to make good on the loss of learning that s taken place. even before the pandemic, two things were happening. the gap between better off children and poorer children in how they were doing at school was beginning to widen again. and in hartlepool and across the north east, more and more children were growing up in families struggling with money. and we know that it s those children who have fallen furthest
people own staff to deliver it to the people because i know they will get hi-h people because i know they will get high quality delivery, the staff training high quality delivery, the staff training every week to improve the delivery training every week to improve the delivery and the quality of that can make delivery and the quality of that can make the delivery and the quality of that can make the biggest impact on young people make the biggest impact on young people in make the biggest impact on young people in our area and so the tutoring people in our area and so the tutoring programme causes a bit of confusion tutoring programme causes a bit of confusion. and the teacher training programme also. should we be made to make our programme also. should we be made to make our current workforce more effective make our current workforce more effective it make our current workforce more effective it would have a bigger impact effective it would have a bigger impact.