It also states that high quality, accessible early years provision is needed as part of the recovery package to mitigate learning losses during the pandemic and narrow the widening gap in inequality in education.
The latest analysis by EPI for the Department for Education (DfE) shows many children had already experienced as much as three months of lost learning by the autumn term, with further losses likely following another period of remote learning at the start of this year.
Modelling shows that, without ambitious funding and interventions which tackle the scale of lost education, there are likely to be severe long-run consequences for young people’s education, earnings and life chances, which would in turn bring damage to the wider economy.
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