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<p>The Government recognises that extended school and college restrictions have had
a substantial impact on children and young people’s education and are committed to
helping pupils make up lost education due to the COVID-19 outbreak.</p><p>We appointed
Sir Kevan Collins as Education Recovery Commissioner to oversee the long-term plan
to help schools support pupils make up their education over the course of this Parliament.
Sir Kevan will engage with parents, pupils, and teachers in the development of this
broader approach and review how evidence-based interventions can be used to address
the impact the COVID-19 outbreak has had. We will share further details in due course.</p><p>As
an immediate step, on the 24 February, we committed an additional £700 million to
support summer schools, tutoring, early language interventions and additional support
to schools to help pupils make up their education. This builds on the £1 billion catch-up
package announced in June 2020, which included a catch-up premium, shared across state
primary and secondary schools to support schools to make up for lost teaching time
over this academic year. It also includes the National Tutoring Programme which provides
schools with access to high-quality, subsidised tuition in this academic year and
next.</p><p>Within the £700 million catch-up package, £200 million will be available
to secondary schools to deliver a two-week summer school. Although we recommend a
focus on incoming year 7 pupils, schools are also free to engage pupils in other years,
should they identify a particular need.</p><p>A new one-off £302 million recovery
premium will also be available for state primary and secondary schools, which includes
£22 million to scale up evidenced approaches, building on the pupil premium, to further
support pupils who need it most.</p><p>In addition, an expansion of the National Tutoring
Programme for 5-16 year olds will ensure we can support even more pupils in 2021/22.
The programme will support schools by providing approved tuition partners that offer
subsidised tuition to schools and schools in some of the most disadvantaged areas
will be supported to employ in-house academic mentors to provide tuition to their
pupils.</p>
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