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Former Covid education recovery tsar returns to DfE

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Sir Kevan Collins, the former Covid education recovery tsar who quit in a row over the previous government’s “half-hearted” plan to boost post-pandemic learning, has returned to the Department for Education as an advisor.
Sir Kevan Collins was education recovery tsar for five months after quitting in protest. Picture: DfE
Sir Kevan Collins was education recovery tsar for five months after quitting in protest. Picture: DfE

Sir Kevan Collins held the role for just five months before resigning over then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s £1.4bn Covid recovery plan.

Collins had advised government that £15bn was needed to mitigate the impact of school closures on children and young people.

In his resignation letter, Collins said Johnson’s package did “not come close to meeting the scale of the challenge”.

New Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has now announced Collins’ return to DfE as a non-executive board member amid a restructure of the department.

The former chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) will sit on a board which “provides scrutiny across delivery and performance, supporting and challenging the department” for three years.

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