
They have warned that the school system - and its emphasis on league tables and scores - is failing the city’s most disadvantaged children.
Fiona Spellman, chief executive of Leeds-based Shine, told the YEP that it feels as though “the system has been stuck” in a “short-term mode of thinking", when it comes to the future of pupils.
And Coun Jonathan Pryor, who now sits on Labour’s national Bright Future Taskforce, called for a plan to be drawn up on how children can recover the learning they have lost during lockdowns.
“Covid has created new problems but it has also shone a light on existing problems,” he said.
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Owing to the inequality gap, many children in parts of Leeds were already at an extreme disadvantage.
Surely the Government must heed these calls to rethink its education system - otherwise it risks those very same children falling even further behind.