Ofsted head: schools’ focus on food parcels may have hit learning

Amanda Spielman claims prioritising poorest children during Covid made it harder to provide education for allCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSchools that prioritised sending food parcels to their poorest pupils during lockdown in England may not have been able to focus on providing an education to all their students, the head of Ofsted has claimed.Amanda Spielman said it was “admirable” for staff to focus on children who were in greatest need when th