More than 100 charities, unions and educators joined forces in June. Their message to the prime minister was simple: helping children recover from the pandemic needs to go beyond what happens in schools. What did they mean?
The powerful coalition, coordinated by the National Children’s Bureau (NCB), was not suggesting that education is not vitally important: it is. But while the school closures of the last year have certainly had a crushing effect on the learning and education of many children, the damage runs deeper.
For children with poor mental health, disabled children, and those in urgent need of support from social services, extra tutoring cannot address the underlying inequalities they face.
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