The additional funding announced today is a welcome injection, but still falls short of what is needed to rebuild education, including the investment needed to reverse pay cuts and tackle sky high workload.
Educators suffered huge pay cuts under the Conservatives. Investing properly in education, including reversing the pay cuts, is essential to delivering the economic growth the Prime Minister talked about.
This clearly shows how the current assessment system in primary schools puts pressure on children and staff and doesn’t provide reliable or useful data.