THE HEAD of Ofsted has demanded a plan for schools to reopen and warned children are “losing so much”.
Amanda Spielman today urged everyone involved in education to work together and find a way to save a generation of kids.
Appearing on Sophy Ridge on Sunday, the Chief Inspector of Education claimed more children going back should be the Government’s priority.
She said: “I think what we’ve seen shows how important it is planning takes place for everybody.
“What we need to get to is that plan into how we build capacity.
“We need to concentrate on the main objective which should surely be to get as many children back as soon as possible.
“They are losing so much now.
“Losing education, losing social interaction, losing wider development and of course losing their preparedness for the economic opportunities of the future.”
This week her predecessor Sir Michael Wilshaw blasted the Government’s approach to schools and education as an “absolute tragedy”.
He lashed out at ministers for failing kids who desperately need to return to school or face missing months of education which could set them back years.
It came after the Government announced that kids wouldn’t go in for a month of school before the summer, but that zoos and theme parks would be able to open.
Sir Michael told Good Morning Britain: “I think it’s a mess, and it’s a shambles.
“What’s happened over the last few weeks and months has been an absolute tragedy.
“And it’s been a tragedy for those youngsters who need school, need the structure of school, need the routine of school, need teachers who will be working with them, to support them when they get very little support at home.”
He raged: “I just don’t know how we’ve made such a mess of it, because headteachers, and I know lots of headteachers, will have been saying to the Department for Education, you’ve got this wrong.
Boris Johnson has promised a “catch-up” programme for those who have missed months of education would have “massive importance – not just for economic purposes, but for social justice.”
Secondary pupils for Year 10 and Year 12 will be allowed to return on Monday but only 25 per cent of kids are allowed in the building at any one time.
Primary kids from Year One and Year Six were allowed to return on June 1.
School heads will only be allowed to accept some of the country’s four million Primary pupils back if th
