A recent Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) report warned that many disadvantaged children were doing little if no education while schools were closed to most pupils during lockdown, and that the loss of learning could wipe out gains made over the past decade in narrowing the attainment gap.
The government responded by offering disadvantaged pupils tuition worth £350m during the 2020/21 academic year as part of a “catch up” package of support that includes £650m for schools to set up tuition groups to provide extra help.
The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) aims to accelerate pupils’ academic progress and help prevent the attainment gap between disadvantaged and affluent children widening further.
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