CYP Now - Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall

By the time you read this, summer will be on its way out and we’ll be inexorably heading into autumn - when ‘leaves chase warm buses’ and directors of children’s services chase treasury officials to get government to realise that a new financial settlement for children is required in November’s spending review.

More of that anon, I am sure.

I hope that your summer was better than mine, what with both my daughters catching Covid and our holiday plans put into disarray, but c’est la vie…as I didn’t get to say in France. It did mean though, that my youngest was able to pick up her GCSE results in person, along with thousands of other pupils on results day.

Those national results showed an increase in attainment based on teacher assessed grades which, rather than celebrating our children’s resilience, hard work and sacrifice during covid; instead led to much wailing and gnashing of teeth about ‘standards’ by commentators in the media, as I am sure you will have seen.

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