Launched in November 2020 to help children and young people whose education has been affected by the disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic, the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) has so far struggled to live up to expectations.
Through the initiative, part of the government’s Education Recovery programme, the Department for Education will invest £1bn to pay for six million, 15-hour tutoring packages for pupils identified by schools as needing support by July 2024.
However, problems with the running of the NTP – consultancy firm Randstad has had its management contract terminated early – has led to widespread criticism. In addition, only half of the two million courses planned to be delivered this year had been started by 8 May leading ministers to question why 40 per cent of schools were yet to sign up.
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