The Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, was also asked on BBC Breakfast this morning about secondary schools not being able to reopen until beyond September.
“I think that is an immense change. It’s disruption we’ve not seen since the Second World War,” she said.
She also warned that the education divide between advantaged and disadvantaged pupils was “broadening”.
“Almost a decade of catching up on that education gap may well be lost.”
She continued: “We have to avoid that a generation of children leave school in five years’ time, where the disadvantaged children have much poorer prospects because they weren’t given the support they need to learn during this period.”
