A number of school leaders have mentioned to me their anger over a recent remark made by Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman that schools prioritised food parcels over education for all children during the Covid lockdown (Weale, 2021).
In an event at the Institute for Government in September, she said: “In a lot of schools it felt as though their attention went very rapidly to the most disadvantaged children, into making food parcels, going out visiting.
“They put a great deal of attention into the children with greatest difficulties which is admirable, but in some cases that probably got prioritised – certainly last summer, the summer of 2020 – which may have meant that they did not have the capacity left to make sure there was some kind of education offer for all children.”
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