CYP Now - Interview: Natalie Perera - EPI chief on what education catch up plans need to include

Derren Hayes speaks to the chief executive of the Education Policy Institute about what the government needs to do to reverse the damage to pupils' learning as a result of the pandemic.

Perera: “Disadvantaged pupils more affected by virus”

What does the latest evidence show on the extent of lost learning and its impact over the past year?

Our latest analysis for the Department for Education has shown many pupils had already experienced as many as two months of lost learning in their reading and three months in their maths by the autumn term. The real concern is that further losses are likely after all the disruption in the run-up to Christmas, and another period of remote learning in 2021.

Our modelling shows that months of lost education translate to lost earnings later in life for pupils. Depending on how much learning pupils have lost, they could be facing total lost lifetime earnings of between one and 3.4 per cent – that's between £8,000 and £50,000 in lost earnings per pupil.

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