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Quarter of a million children enter secondary school without basic maths and English

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The school shutdowns had a severe impact on UK school children. 41% of UK school children in grade 6 left school without reaching expected standards in literacy and math, in the first school year after the shutdowns. This means 275,000 11 year old children will be without the foundational skills and suffer the effects of a lack of social mobility. About 1.5 million children in UK are suffering from undeveloped speech and language skills following the pandemic. The Guardian says the Treasury Department under Rishi Sunak turned down a15 billion pound pandemic recovery program for education says The Guardian. Much now depends on parental participation to build needed math and language skills, sy experts.



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