22 June 2021 Education Committee's report highlights how disadvantaged White British pupils persistently underperform

The Parliamentary Education Committee report (The forgotten: how White working-class pupils have been let down, and how to change it) highlights how White British pupils eligible for free school meals persistently underperform compared with peers in other ethnic groups, from early years to higher education

It says that the solutions to this underperformance are

Funding to be tailor made at a local level to level up educational opportunity

Support parental engagement and tackle multi-generational disadvantage

Ensure the value of vocational training and apprenticeship options whilst boosting access to higher education

Attract good teachers to challenging areas

Find a better way to talk about racial disparities

11 June 2021 Government announces first set of measures under education recovery programme

The government has announced the first set of measures under its education recovery programme; they include

- Randstad is the provider for year 2 of the National Tutoring Programme (NTP)

- £218million for the NTP, on top of £215million planned for the current academic year

- £579million to develop local tutoring provision using new or existing staff

- £222million to extend the existing 16 to 19 tutoring programnme

- NTP will be given a target of 65% for getting tuition to pupils eligible for the pupil premium, with a focus towards areas with lowest proportions of good and outstanding schools

- Government to review the time spent in schools, with findings being set out later in the year