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Education recovery funding worth ‘little more’ than Eat Out to Help Out scheme, analysis finds

2 mins read Education Coronavirus Early Years
Education recovery funding over the next academic year is worth "little more" than government funding handed to the hospitality sector during last summer’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme, according to latest analysis.
A coalition of school leaders and organisations is calling for a £13.5bn recovery fund. Picture: Adobe Stock
A coalition of school leaders and organisations is calling for a £13.5bn recovery fund. Picture: Adobe Stock

Under the government’s current funding to help pupils recover from disruption to their schooling during the Covid-19 pandemic, £984m has been available for the 2021-22 academic year.

However, this is only marginally higher than the £840m cost of the government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme to help keep restaurants, cafes and pubs open in August 2020.

In total the government has committed to spend £1.4bn over the next three years on education recovery. This amounts to £50 per pupil per year, according to the analysis, which has been carried out by the Education Policy Institute (EPI).

“It is striking that in one month the government spent almost as much subsidising meals in pubs and restaurants as it is now proposing to spend to fund education recovery over one full year for around nine million children,” said EPI executive chairman and former coalition government minister David Laws.

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