Education Recovery in Schools

Public Accounts Committee Closed Inquiry
Opened: 20 Jan 2023 Closed: 24 Sep 2023 Parliament page
The disruption to schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic led to learning loss, particularly in certain parts of the country and among children with special educational needs and disabilities, and disadvantaged children. In response to the loss of learning the Department for Education (DfE) developed various catch-up learning initiatives for the … Read more
9 Recommendations
20 Conclusions
1 Report
1 Oral session
1 Letter
1 Event
Oral evidence sessions 1 session
Education recovery in schools
Andrew McCully · Department for Education Graham Archer · Department for Education Susan Acland-Hood · The Department for Education
Recommendations & Conclusions
3 results
5 Recommendation Not Addressed
Fifty-Fifth Report - Education rec…
Publish progress measures for 2030 attainment targets, starting with primary pupils, and report annually
The Department has no interim targets to track progress towards the 2030 attainment ambitions set out in the Schools White Paper. The Department has not specified the impact it wants to achieve from its interventions to support education recovery because … Read more
Government Response
The government response provided addresses a different set of recommendations from the Public Accounts Committee concerning investment, and therefore does not engage with the substance of the recommendation regarding education attainment targets.
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1 Conclusion Not Addressed
Fifty-Fifth Report - Education rec…
Committee commenced inquiry into Department for Education's school education recovery programme
On the basis of a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we took evidence from the Department for Education (the Department) on education recovery in schools.2
Government Response
The government acknowledges that the Committee took evidence from the Department for Education about education recovery in schools based on a report by the National Audit Office.
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6 Conclusion
Fifty-Fifth Report - Education rec…
COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted young people's mental health, necessitating whole-school approach
Evidence submissions from the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition, Young Minds and Adoption UK highlighted the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had had on young people’s mental health.10 The Department agreed with Young Minds’ recommendation calling for a … Read more
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Government Response AI assessment · 28 of 9 classified

Total 9 recs + 20 conclusions
Correspondence 1 letter
17 Apr 2023 Correspondence from Susan Acland-Hood, Permanent Secretary, Department for Education, re Public Account Committee Oral Evidence Session “Education recovery in schools”– 9 March – corrections 30 April 2023
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