The government says it wants to stop children missing out on their education, but critics say most schools are already open for the required length of time anyway.
by September next year, to prevent children missing out on education.
The rule will be contained in the Schools White Paper, to be published on Monday, and it is part of a bid to see 90% of pupils leaving primary school having reached expected standards in numeracy and literacy. While most school weeks in England already cover this length of time, the Department for Education said there are"discrepancies" which could see a pupil who gets 20 minutes' less teaching time per day losing out on around two weeks of schooling in a year.
The Labour Party's shadow education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, said that the proposals amounted to telling"almost eight in 10 schools" to"carry on as normal".January: Schools relax mask rules in classrooms She said that after two years of"pandemic chaos" the plan would leave parents, teachers and pupils"wondering where the ambition for children's futures is"."Hundreds of thousands of primary children live in an area with no 'good' schools, the gap in learning between the most and least well-off pupils has widened during COVID, four in 10 young people leave education without the skills they need and young people are experiencing a mental health crisis.
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