Covid-19: Schools

Lord Storey Excerpts
Wednesday 3rd June 2020

(4 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Berridge Portrait Baroness Berridge
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My Lords, we are acutely aware of the gap in education, particularly for disadvantaged students but, throughout this period, vulnerable children have been eligible to attend school and that group of course overlaps significantly with disadvantaged children. On the examinations next summer, Ofqual is currently consulting over the impact on those examinations.

Lord Storey Portrait Lord Storey (LD)
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My Lords, the Minister will be aware that the most vulnerable children are those in care. What extra learning support is being given to those children?