The party said that the Prime Minister has presided over a string of high-profile failures on education, which peaked last week with the resignation of Sir Kevan Collins, who was appointed personally by Boris Johnson as 'catch-up tsar' just a few months earlier.
Sir Kevan resigned over a funding row, and what he called the Government's ‘half-hearted approach’ to education recovery for hundreds of thousands of children, whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic.
Last week the Government announced £1.4 billion in new funding for extra tuition and teacher training, just one tenth of the £15bn that Sir Kevan had recommended was needed for pupils to catch up with lost learning from Covid. The Government has said it has committed over £3bn so far.
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