The House of Commons education committee said the initial inquiry would run alongside its continuing work on how the coronavirus outbreak was affecting the education system and the implications for society’s most vulnerable groups.
It said the call for written evidence was the first step in a series of inquiries the committee would undertake on the issues faced by disadvantaged and left-behind groups and how they could best be supported.
Such work would become even more important given these groups were likely to be disproportionately impacted by the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic on education and children’s services, the committee said.
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