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<p>The UK is committed to ensuring a safe return to school for children around the
world. We are taking decisive action through our 18 bilateral education programmes,
and we are supporting global efforts, including the UNICEF-led campaign 'Opening Up
Better', to ensure children return to school when it is safe to do so. We recognise
that children already living through emergencies are at a double disadvantage during
the COVID-19 pandemic and have provided an additional £5 million to Education Cannot
Wait and £5.3 million to UNHCR to support refugee education.</p><p>The UK has played
a leading role coordinating the global response, and on 20 and 22 October the UK will
be co-hosting an extraordinary Global Education Meeting (GEM) with UNESCO. This extraordinary
meeting of the GEM will bring together the international education community to agree
on a set of global priority actions to be put in place to support the recovery from
COVID-19 and strengthening education systems.</p><p>The UK, along with Kenya, will
host next year's replenishment of the Global Partnership for Education, the major
global fund for education. This will be a key moment to mobilise much needed commitments
as we build back from COVID-19.</p>
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