The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said that by February half-term, children across the UK will have lost at least half a year of normal, in-person, schooling, which would increase to two thirds of a year if schools do not reopen as normal until Easter.
A briefing note published by the think tank states that the normal cost of half a year of schooling comes to around about £30bn across the UK, but, so far, governments across the UK have allocated about £1.5bn towards the cost of catch-up.
“This is highly unlikely to be sufficient to help pupils catch-up or prevent inequalities from widening,” the briefing states.
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