What are the Government's plans for 'catch-up' education to try to remedy the impact of lost school time on academic progress?

[Solfege]

I recall seeing speculation in the press a while ago that the Government would devise some plan to make up for lost school time.
There seems to be silence on this now (as far as I can tell).
Have I missed something?
Is there still a plan to make up for lost teaching time?

As far as I know schools have been allocated money and are spending it now. However I think with a lot of schools it is very targeted on those who really need it so unless your child has been offered extra classes you may not know.

Here is a link to the website of a school who I know kids at (not mine) explaining what they are doing.

www.archbishoptemple.com/pupils/pupil-premium

My 14 year old DS year 9 is doing extra maths and science lessons as part of the government catch up scheme. In his school unless your child was invited you probably wouldn't be aware it was happening.

As per first reply.
The money is allocated to schools who decide how it is being used to best effect.

Ah, ok.
Where's the transparency in how the school decides who gets the catch up help?

And who is the school accountable to for spending the extra money wisely? Is the school definitely using it on additional face to face teaching that it would not otherwise have "bought"?

Here are the Gov guidelines about the funding -

www.gov.uk/government/publications/catch-up-premium-coronavirus-covid-19/catch-up-premium

It is up to schools how to specifically allocate it, but "

While schools can use their funding in a way that suits their cohort and circumstances, they are expected to use this funding for specific activities which will help pupils catch up on missed learning. Schools should particularly focus on disadvantaged and vulnerable pupils as we know they have been most affected."

Schools are supposed to publish

"how it is intended that the grant will be spent,
how the effect of this expenditure on the educational attainment of those pupils at the school will be assessed"

@Solfege

And who is the school accountable to for spending the extra money wisely? Is the school definitely using it on additional face to face teaching that it would not otherwise have "bought"?

They're accountable to their governing body, and to Ofsted and to the DfE, like they are for everything else.

I have found that they are not spending it on year 6 in my DC's school. "Because they aren't doing SATs anymore" even the teacher forgot to hide the injustice of the situation! My DD was asked to commit to a catch up after school group before Christmas which didn't happen because of second lockdown. Now this has all been forgotten because the school don't care about the academic progress of Year 6 anymore. Shocking!

That's awful, Circle3. Was that in an email, or just in conversation? I"d pull on that thread, if I were you - pointing out that of course they care about the student's actual outcomes - whether measured or not - and year 6 is a critical year for students, where they prepare for the big move to secondary.

Sometimes people miss the bigger picture, and need to be reminded. Reminds me of that Welsh minister, who said they were deliberately holding back some of their vaccine supplies, so that they would be delivered evenly and there wouldn't be vaccinators standing around with nothing to do the following month...

Ours seem to be spending on yr r. Who only missed jan to early mar.

And other years are using it seemongly to pratice times tables - which should be done at home, rather than doing some of the missed maths.
Like pp say it's all been pretty secretive so you only know if you talk to other parents.
The spending is on the website but hasnt been emailed.

@Raindropsonrosesand it was in an online parents evening (chat on zoom with teacher!). I feel very annoyed about it, but not sure what I'll achieve apart from leave in a bad taste in my mouth, and get my DD upset that I've made a fuss. I doubt they will put on extra sessions now.

Probably because the secondary schools are meant to be providing summer transition schools for the current year 6s so primary funding has been targeted at other year groups ( in my county at least!)

Out secondary is planning summer school for the incoming year 7s. Personally I’d rather they didn’t because my dd will want to go and it’ll screw up our holiday plans. They’ve asked teachers to express interest but none of the teachers I’ve spoken to want to do it - after the year they’ve had they need s as break.

Ah, I see that makes sense. Just had a like around secondary school website, and they do mention a whole transition week....during the only week we are going away!! Yes, makes holidays (we were only planning UK) tricky. I feel less annoyed at the primary school now. I would have thought the transition week would just be fun and games, but perhaps it isn't. Yes, poor teachers!