One council has said that over 1000 days have been lost to exclusions around the county in the last year, and school attendance generally still hasn’t improved to pre pandemic levels. A spokesperson for the council says that they need to better understand the lives of children in the area.
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00:00The pandemic had a drastic impact on the lives of children all across Wales and the rest
00:05of the world. Schools were shut and the way young people received their education changed
00:10and has since not fully changed back. New learning habits, ways of teaching and the
00:15amount of online learning all came about and concerns are being raised that it hasn't returned
00:20in the way people had originally hoped. Thousands of hours of school had been lost in 2020 and
00:25that continued into 2021 and the years that followed. And while there have been improvements,
00:31one council among many more in a similar pattern has said that school attendance levels still
00:35haven't reached pre-pandemic levels. The Vale of Glamorgan Council have said that they hoped
00:41more children would be attending school as regularly as they were and a consistent number
00:46of exclusions is adding to the concerns that children are not in school enough. The local
00:51authority have said they want to learn more about their students' lives and hope to be
00:55able to work around the problems that arise with the pupils.