CYP Now - Learning Inequalities During the Covid-19 Pandemic

The majority of children who did not attend school between March and July 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic lost 15 weeks’ face-to-face schooling. Prolonged school closures and the abrupt transition to home-schooling could have severe consequences on students across the UK. Researchers from the University of Southampton set out to discover the impact of home learning on children from different backgrounds.

Report: Learning Inequalities During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Report authors: Nicola Pensiero, Anthony Kelly and Christian Bokhove

Published by: University of Southampton, July 2020

SUMMARY

The researchers used data from the Understanding Society study, which surveyed the families of 1,430 primary and 1,595 secondary school children in April 2020 – one month into “lockdown”. They found children in primary schools spent on average 2.4 hours a day doing schoolwork and had another two hours a day of extra support from adults. In secondary schools, children were spending an average of three hours a day doing schoolwork and had 0.9 hours a day extra support from adults.

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