We asked the Department when it expected to conduct a lessons-learned exercise. It highlighted that the pandemic had often required it to take action collectively with other organisations as it could not respond unilaterally to what was a health situation. It said that any such exercise should therefore be carried out collaboratively with the rest of government in order to draw out consistent lessons.10 Attendance of vulnerable children

We asked the Department when it expected to conduct a lessons-learned exercise. It highlighted that the pandemic had often required it to take action collectively with other organisations as it could not respond unilaterally to what was a health situation. It said that any such exercise should therefore be carried out collaboratively with the rest of government in order to draw out consistent lessons.10 Attendance of vulnerable children Type: conclusion | Number: 7 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: 1.1 The government agrees with the Committee’s recommendation. Target implementation date: December 2022 1.2 The Department for Education’s (the department) approach will be to take forward the Committee’s recommendation in a way that is consistent and collaborative with other pieces of work across