The Department for Education’s (DfE) lack of planning for how to deal with a pandemic, along with its failure to set standards for remote learning when lockdowns struck, resulted in children receiving “unequal [educational] experiences” over the past year, according to a new report. This report also says that the department has been “surprisingly resistant” to investigating the shortfalls in its Covid response. The Guardian has the story.
Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also said there was evidence that the Government’s £1.7 billion catch-up programme – designed to restore the learning lost during school closures – may not be connecting with many of the most disadvantaged children. The committee’s report describes the DfE as having “worthy aspirations but little specific detail”.
Meg Hillier, Chair of the PAC, said: “The pandemic has further exposed a very ugly truth about the children living in poverty and disadvantage, who have been hit particularly hard.
“Online learning was inaccessible to many children even in later lockdowns and there is no commitment to ongoing additional funding for IT. Schools will be expected to fund laptops out of their existing, and already squeezed, budgets.”
Hillier said the DfE “appears uninterested in learning lessons from earlier in the pandemic”, preferring to wait for later public inquiries.
“It shows little energy and determination to ensure that its catch-up offer is sufficient to undo the damage of the past 14 months,” Hillier said.
The report, after hearings conducted by the bipartisan committee, was deeply critical of the DfE’s failings towards children with special educational needs and disabilities, many of who struggled with remote learning, and over the future of the more than one million digital devices it had distributed to schools at a cost of £400 million.
The DfE told the committee that the laptops and tablets were now owned by schools and local authorities, which would have to maintain and update them using existing budgets.
The committee accused the DfE of being “unprepared” for the disruption despite taking part in the Government’s 2016 cross-departmental exercise to test the U.K.’s response to a pandemic, called Operation Cygnus. The MPs also found that the DfE was “surprisingly resistant” to investigating its response since March 2020.
Numerous studies have highlighted that pupils made little to no progress while learning from home – so why the reluctance from the DfE to investigate its errors in fixing this?
The Guardian report is worth reading in full.
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Igor sharing a study which demonstrates that both the flu and Covid jabs are useless;
”So, the data in the above table lets us compare the flu vaccination status of influenza cases and controls (COVID cases). The result is that the same proportion of influenza-vaccinated people are hospitalized for the flu as the influenza-vaccinated people are hospitalized for COVID.
In other words, the flu vaccine does NOT help prevent flu-related hospitalizations!
55% of persons hospitalized with Covid were Covid-boosted. 55% of persons hospitalized with flu were Covid-boosted.
If the Covid vaccine had been 100% effective at preventing hospitalizations with Covid, ZERO hospitalized Covid patients would have been Covid-boosted. Instead, regardless of the type of illness (Covid or the flu), the percentage of Covid-boosted patients is the same for both illnesses.
This comparison shows that Covid boosters do not reduce Covid hospitalizations.”
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/huge-veterans-study-covid-and-flu
The awful thing is how often I am able to convince myself that the floodgates are opening. Drunk on optimism, I often assume that a great awakening is about to unfold with yet another Bridgen, NHS whistleblower, or yet more gossip. However, my hopes are systematically dashed when I realise that it has been three years now and still a tiny percentage of the population has woken up. This is especially true with regards to the vast swathes of evidence pointing to dangerous vaccines; the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was generally accepted much faster and with far less evidence to cite a comparable phenomenon.
Will we ever actually see a future where the majority of people accept the jabs as useless death shots?
Shania Twain Wants More Diversity in Country Music”
Country Music has always been the music of the poor white. Blues the music of the poor black. Why doesn’t she demand more white hiphop performers too.? Why do we all have to be the same..? Silly moo…
Quite. She’s just another virtue signalling diva getting her quid’s worth in. If it is indeed ‘pale’ and ‘male’ that’s probably because pale males like playing country music. I can’t see some Jackson Heights NY black teen wanting to play second fiddle with the Nashville Knee Tremblers…
“Channel 4 Slammed for ‘Normalising Gender Ideology’ as Trans Person Gets Naked in Front of Children in New Show”
.and next on Channel four, 60 minutes of paedophilia…
“Blast From the Past”
Two Gobshytes, filling their pockets with their little fairy story… No retirement income concerns for them.
“‘Draconian’ Law Letting Staff Sue Bosses Over Rude Customers is Shelved After Backlash”
Why do we need a ‘backlash’ to stop a patently poor piece of law from being voted through. Who is reading the proposed bills when they first come to parliament.?
The operative word in the above headline is “shelved.” The law has not been thrown in the bin it has simply been moved out of harms way and will be pulled down and dusted off when a more opportune moment presents itself.
“Capitalism Not Slavery Made Britain Rich. It’s Time We Stopped Apologising for Our Past”
A new narrative, yes. You might imagine that our ancestors were all living a grand old life on the backs of slaves. Actually it was a portion of the aristocracy who did that. They also had people working on the land, in mines and mills here in the UK in conditions not far removed from slavery. We are where we are by a combination of factors, but slavery is a minor one. Suggesting otherwise is paying a serious disservice to the sacrifices that our recent ancestors made.
“Net Zero Rules Saddle High Street With ‘Disastrous’ £90 Billion Upgrade Bill”
There should be a moratorium, a ten year moratorium on all this nett zero nonsense. Its obvious w can’t afford it, the benefits are unknown and hard to prove, the case for doing it is contentious at best. More reliable data, more mature technologies, and a greater understanding of what is being achieved is needed before we spend and regulate ourselves into bankruptcy.
You are swallowing their story Neil. We do not need… “More reliable data, more mature technologies,”…. the whole net zero malarkey is fiction. Net Zero takes as read that carbon dioxide is having a negative effect on our planet and this is simply not true.
Carbon dioxide makes up 0.04 % of our atmosphere. Without Co2 the planet would die. Net Zero is an even bigger lie than the C1984.
Net zero is simply a euphemism for no more humans.
So how are these 15 minute cities – everything you need within 15 minutes – supposed to work if there are no shops? How are the elderly and disabled supposed to get anywhere if every street is blocked off by LTN’s?
Socialist utopia here we come. Like communism, it was so good they had to build the Berlin wall to prevent people getting out.
Physical shops will no longer be needed in the ghettos – let us at least be honest about where these plans are headed – supplies will be dropped in to warehouses where the proles will be marched to collect their rations.
To continue on with this issue of the emergency alerts, I see that the government says it is for life threatening issues such as floods, big storms, blizzards, big fires…honestly they think we’re all a bunch of 5 year olds. If I remember correctly, there are still things called weather reports in existence that already provide information about these things. Also, forgive me for mentioning it, but big floods usually come with a lot of rain, prior to the ‘big flood’ and fires come with a lot of smoke before the ‘big fire. Both of which tend to get noticed by people. Blizzards don’t tend to happen in the UK unless it’s a blizzard of lies emanating from the government.
Apparently, they used the alert system, which sounds like a siren (Don’t Panic, Mr Mannering! Don’t Panic!) to warn of the Covid nonsense in New Zealand. The mind boggles as to how that was received. What exactly do they want people to do? They want us to panic. There is absolutely no other reason for it. Imagine it’s getting nice and warm like it did last summer for a few days. Emergency Alert sirens start going off in parks and beaches where people are having bbqs. It starts raining in Skegness. Emergency Alert goes off. But wait….a new pandemic arrives (as it surely will) and Emergency Alerts go off and people are told to go home by the Covid Marshalls. They literally clear the streets and anyone loitering, as I will be, will be arrested. I think this is the reason. Nothing else makes sense. As we all knew, this is about more control and nothing about having our backs…the government’s phrase is: “The government says it could one day be “the sound that saves your life”.
Spot on! Like training a dog with a whistle!
Absolutely, it achieves two things simultaneously; fear mongering, which tends to keep people compliant, and as you say conditioned to obey instructions related to any threat, and measuring the population’s digital capability ( for digital ID and CBDC ) by requiring a response to a pop-up when it’s tested.
Hmm, something’s not right here. Government saving lives?
What was that care home campaign Midazolam Mat got up to?
What about the millions of poisonous injections forced on to our gullible people?
Government saving lives eh?
Proven get rich scheme that will make you a fortune…
Invest in brainwashing, mind control, coercive persuasion, thought control and other psychological techniques, to promote irrational fear in the gullible. Then sell unnecessary dangerous experimental vaccines, catastrophic climate pseudo-science nonsense, etc….
(note: it is essential that you do not give a shit about the catastrophic harm you will cause)
I am currently working on something that will protect people when the sky falls down – something my modelling shows is imminent! yes – I know – pure genius!
Anyone wishing to share in this un-tapped fortune please contact me for my bank details. Success is guaranteed – see ”blast from the past” above
Troubling use of facial recognition technology in Iran.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/04/08/iran-installs-cameras-for-morality-police-to-identify-women-defying-hijab-law/
It makes me quite pleased there are individuals developing their camera disabling skills in outer London.
“Covid Vaccine Does More Harm Than Good”.
To put the statistics alluded to in this article another way: If the Number Needed to Vaccinate (NNV) to prevent one Covid hospitalization in the 50-55 age group is 40,000 – assume for argument’s sake that this number represented the overall NNV for all age groups combined: Then we would have for every 1 Covid hospitalization prevented, 500 hospital admissions for Vaccine injury.
But there are clearly more people under the age of 55 than over the age of 55, and the NNV increases exponentially as you go down the age groups. Therefore the overall NNV is almost certain to be much higher that 40,000!
So the question we should be asking, is how many hundreds of people are, even at this early stage where the vaccine has been subject to only short-term surveillance, being hospitalized for vax injuries to prevent just one serious covid hospital case?