There was an 80% drop in the number of pupils in shared education between June 2019 and June 2021.
Shared education involves pupils from separate schools and different backgrounds coming together for joint classes and activities
The DE monitoring report on shared education covers the period from April 2020 - just after the start of the first Covid-19 lockdown - to March 2022. "As a result, there has been an 80% reduction in the overall number of children and young people involved; falling from 87,385 participating at June 2019 to 17,476 at June 2021."
However, the DE report said that some schools had continued to do joint activities online or outdoors. As many schools and pupils were not able to meet for joint activities due to pandemic restrictions the date for funding for some activities under those programmes has been extended.
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