What does moving forward look like?: Considering the role of Getting It Right for Every Child in recovery
How can existing policies meet the needs of children most adversely by impact of COVID-19, including widening gaps in attainment?
Planning the re-opening of school education in Scotland
Policy Scotland has been supporting national and local decision-making regarding the re-opening of school education in Scotland.
“They needed food and clean water”: COVID-19 responses in rural Teno, Chile
How an education authority in rural Chile dealt with the lack of access to the internet and digital platforms to allow students to keep learning and social vulnerability in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Evidence round-up: Issues in recovery – food insecurity and learning loss
New evidence on two issues of continuing relevance in the coming months: food insecurity and the challenges of learning loss amongst children from low income families.
Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland Annual Report
Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland (CNS) has published its Annual Report, providing an update and overview of the programme as well as a look at the next steps.
Facing COVID, we have evolved over 100 years in a month: Jaraguá do Sul, Brazil
The Director of Education in Jaraguá do Sul Municipality in Brazil discusses how the education service has responded to the challenge of COVID-19
CNS: Early insights into the COVID-19 response – 12 June 2020
This CNS briefing focuses on the lessons learned from the ‘hubs’ for vulnerable pupils and children from key worker families, in the context of re-opening schools in August 2020.
Outdoor learning briefing paper
Review of international evidence on benefits of, and barriers to, outdoor learning, with reflection on how outdoor learning can be managed.
Attainment and disadvantage in Scotland’s schools: what may the impact of lockdown be? Research and Policy Briefing
Research is finding that poorer students are being the most impacted by the shift to online learning in lockdown. This research briefing discusses the issues in more detail.
New Crisis Response in Education network
Policy Scotland and the Network for Social and Educational Equity are convening a new international network focussing on Crisis Response in Education.