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Three top tips on helping disadvantaged children catch up  

2 mins read Guest Blog Education
Many children have lost out on education during the pandemic with experts raising fears that it has widened the attainment gap for disadvantaged groups.

Some campaigners have called for a catch-up programme during the summer holidays so that disadvantaged children do not return to school in September too far behind. Here, Holly Carlyle offers three top tips on how to best support the remote online learning of disadvantaged children.

The most important first step when providing young people, especially more vulnerable pupils, with online learning provisions is creating a completely safe environment. They need to have the freedom to explore a subject themselves, without encountering adult or dangerous content that could upset or harm them. This should not mean limiting them, they should still have a broad range of content to access so they can delve as far into a subject as they like.

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