A survey conducted by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) found that while nine out of 10 parents are happy to send children back to school today (8 March), two-thirds are worried about the amount of learning they have missed as a result of enforced school closures to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Among concerned parents with children in primary school, close to half think that their child will have recovered within a term. But a third of concerned parents think that recovery will take a school year or more. At secondary school, nine per cent of concerned parents think that their child will never make up for the pandemic’s effect on their learning.
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