EDUCATION recovery funding will be needed for years to come, a teaching union has warned as schools made final preparations for Monday’s full reopening of schools.

Pupils will be returning to school in many different frames of mind, and those differences should be recognised and understood as part of a long-term response, National Education Union joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said.

Teachers, leaders and support staff have done “a magnificent job” simultaneously educating pupils at home and at school and have “done everything they could to support and protect children and young people,” she said.