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UK schools ‘will have less than a third of Covid costs met by government’
Support fund will not cover two-thirds of spending needed to be Covid safe, says thinktank
More than two-thirds of the extra costs facing schools as a result of the coronavirus pandemic will not be covered by the UK government’s support fund, according to a leading education thinktank.
Most schools have had to spend more cash this year in order to operate a “Covid-safe” environment. The government has provided some financial relief through its exceptional costs fund, but research from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) suggests that the majority of schools’ additional costs won’t be met by the fund.
Read the original article at The Guardian