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Early years ‘central’ to education recovery plan, catch-up tsar says

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Early years will be “central” to England’s school recovery plan, catch-up tsar Kevan Collins has vowed, admitting the sector has been subject to “consistent under-investment”.
Kevin Collins spoke to the education select committee. Picture: Parliament TV
Kevin Collins spoke to the education select committee. Picture: Parliament TV

Giving evidence to the education select committee about catch-up plans ahead of the reopening of schools next week, Collins was asked by chair Robert Halfon MP if £18m allocated to early years as part of the government’s £1.7bn catch-up fund was “sufficient”.

Halfon explained that £10m has been allocated to the government’s pre-reception early language programme and £8m has been ring-fenced for Nuffield Foundation’s early language intervention programme.

Collins, who was most recently chief executive at the Education Endowment Foundation and previously director of children’s services at Tower Hamlets Council, said the funding was not sufficient.

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