How can different groups work together to support learners?

Chartered College of Teaching ¬∑ How can different groups work together to support learners?   Parental engagement in the learning of children and young people has always been important (Desforges and Abouchaar 2003; Goodall and Vorhaus 2011). By 'parent', I mean any adult with a caring responsibility for the child. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a realisation of this in ways we could never have foreseen. During the pandemic, learning for almost all young people has been abruptly moved entirely into the home. Though, it is, of course, a misnomer to say that schools have been 'closed' - many have been physically open throughout the lockdown, and almost all have been continuing to function and provide support for learning; now more than ever, we can show that schools are about communities, rather than about buildings. This change to learning has, for most young people and families, fallen somewhere on a continuum ranging from confusion (at best) to trauma; a situation th