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Ministers urged to do homework to stop school closures turning into a skills crisis


Ministers urged to do homework to stop school closures turning into a skills crisis
The economic cost of lost learning is measured in the billions as experts voice fears of longer term repercussions
10 January 2021 • 5:00am
Spare a thought for Blackpool councillor Kath Benson, who has the unenviable brief of overseeing schools in one of the country’s most deprived areas.
“We’re all working at a hundred miles an hour and there is no light at the end of the tunnel,” she says.
Millions of families across the country are in the early stages of a stressful six weeks or more of home learning, and the challenge will be no greater than in Blackpool, where more than a quarter of children live in low-income families. ....

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