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Where it is needed, evidence based mental health support must be made available.”It continues: “This is not an either or decision. Social connection and play offer myriad learning opportunities and are positively associated with children’s academic attainment and literacy.”The group cautioned that intensive “catch up” plans, intended to help pupils make up lost ground as a result of the pandemic, could end up worsening children’s mental health and wellbeing, and have a negative effect on learning in the long term.The government’s attitude to children’s play came into focus this week when two young children were ordered home by police officers after building a snowman in a local park.Ministers have set up a 1.3bn catch up fund to boost learning among disadvantaged children who have lost out most during lockdown, including a national tutoring programme offering subsidised one to one and small group tuition within schools. Critics including the Institute for Fiscal Studies have said it does not go far enough.A recent study found a seven month attainment gap between disadvantaged primary school pupils and their better off classmates, while six and seven year old pupils made on average about two months’ less progress in maths and reading in autumn 2020 compared with a 2017 cohort.This week ministers confirmed they were considering extending the school day and lengthening the summer term to help children catch up with their studies, though Sir Kevan Collins, the new “catch up tsar”, acknowledged the importance of play, music, drama and sport in his first interview.PlayFirstUK, which includes academics from the universities of Reading, Sussex, Cambridge, Bath and Gloucester and was set up during the first lockdown, highlighted unprecedented increases in children’s mental health problems during the pandemic, as well as increased loneliness and reduced academic motivation.”There is understandable concern about children’s education but children will not learn effectively if their mental health is poor,” the letter says.
Most of the other former Democratic presidential candidates have endorsed Biden. Some did it from the stage of a rally back when campaigns were all about handshakes, back patting and selfies. But Sen. The week of March 5 has items of possible interest to residents of district 2 at the Parks Long Range Planning Subcommittee, the , the Madison Police Department Central District Community Forum, the City County Homeless Issues Committee, the Common Council Executive Committee, the Common Council, the Street Use Staff Commission, the Board of Public Works, the Urban Forestry Task Force, and the Common Council President’s Work Group on Surveillance Equipment Data Management Policies. The city meeting agenda items are open for testimony from the public should you be interested in weighing in. I also appreciate hearing from you on any items on which you have a particular interest or concern so please send me an email or give me a call..