Primary pupils' learning gap widens for first time since 2007
"It is deeply concerning that our country entered the pandemic with such a lack of progress in this key area of social policy, and the government urgently needs to put in place new policy measures to help poor children to start to close the gap again," said EPI chairman David Laws.
"It's time the government recognised this and committed to giving the early years sector the investment it needs," he said.Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said with children coming to school too hungry to learn, education staff had been working flat out to tackle the effects of poverty, even before the pandemic.
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