The Mail Force Computers for Kids campaign raised an astonishing £13m to support the Department for Education s drive to get disconnected youngsters online by providing new and refurbished laptops.
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image captionThe priority when full schooling resumes will be to identify gaps with each child, head teacher Matt Hood said
Covid-caused disruption for children learning the basics of reading and counting could pose problems for years to come, a head teacher has warned.
Matt Hood, principal of the online Oak National Academy, said early years teaching was sophisticated and it was unreasonable to expect parents to master it.
He said we may see the impact when pupils sit GCSEs 10 years from now.
The government said more than £1bn was being spent to help pupils catch up.
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