Speaking to the Education Select Committee this morning, Sir Kevan, who quit his role as the Government’s education recovery commissioner last month after ministers rejected his £15 million recovery plan, told MPs a ‘massive national effort’ to recover children’s learning was now needed rather than a ‘bit of tutoring in the corner’.
He said that that the Government’s investment in teaching and tutoring are ‘good components’, but that there needs to be a ‘bigger co-ordinated effort’. He went on to highlight how early years is ‘underfunded’ under the current package and said that ‘education recovery must start with the youngest children’.
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