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<p>The department is undertaking a range of monitoring and evaluation activities to
assess COVID-19 catch-up activity, including for the additional £1.8 billion allocated
in the autumn Budget 2021.</p><p> </p><p>The department has commissioned Renaissance
Learning, and their subcontractor, the Education Policy Institute, to collect data
from a sample of schools. This will provide a baseline assessment of lost education
and catch-up needs for pupils in schools in England, and to monitor progress over
the course of the academic year 2020/21 and Autumn term 2021. We are seeking commercial
agreements for further academic years which will help the department understand the
impact of the additional £1.8 billion.</p><p> </p><p>The department has a contract
with Ipsos MORI, in consortium with Sheffield Hallam University and the Centre for
Education and Youth to undertake a mixed-methods study design (including surveys of
school leaders, interviews, and case studies) to examine how schools are tackling
the issue of lost education. Results from the study will be used to understand how
the catch-up premium funds have been spent and how best to support schools to tackle
lost education.</p><p> </p><p>The department is also undertaking evaluations of specific
education recovery programmes to understand their effectiveness.</p><p> </p>
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