Ms de Souza told the Local Government Association’s children and young people’s board on Tuesday that she had worked “very closely” with the former education recovery commissioner Sir Kevan Collins on his education recovery plan, which is thought to have been costed at £15bn. Ms de Souza said she had spoken to Sir Kevan last Wednesday following his resignation and was “optimistic we can get more support in terms of education recovery”, and “diligently totally focused on working on that”. “Education recovery needs to happen. Ms de Souza’s team is currently “crunching the data” and expecting to report “soon” on the results. “We need to be trying to think about the spending review and what needs to happen now,” she said.

Source: The Local June 10, 2021 11:26 UTC