Under-fives ‘are forgetting how to play with toys or put on shoes’ since pandemic

Three in five workers in early years settings say fewer children are reaching the expected levels of learning and development since Covid began. Nearly half of staff who work with pre-school children believe the attainment gap between poorer under-fives and their more affluent peers has grown during the pandemic, a survey by the Early Years … Read more

Under-fives are forgetting how to play with toys or put on their shoes, early-learning workers say

Three in five workers in early years settings say fewer children are reaching the expected levels of learning and development since Covid began. Nearly half of staff who work with pre-school children believe the attainment gap between poorer under-fives and their more affluent peers has grown during the pandemic, a survey by the Early Years … Read more