The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s socioemotional well-being and attainment during the Reception Year
            The Education Endowment Foundation has published The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children’s socioemotional well-being and attainment during the Reception Year. 
This unsurprisingly found that a sample of children who entered Reception in 2020 had on average lower outcomes than children achieved pre-pandemic. 
Read the research here.