A £1bn package of support to help schoolchildren catch up on lost learning over recent months includes £350m ringfenced for the two million most disadvantaged children to access “high quality tuition” during the 2020/21 academic year.
The Department for Education said the National Tutoring Programme will help accelerate pupils’ academic progress and prevent the attainment gap between disadvantaged and affluent children widening further.
Teachers unions welcomed the funding but warned that it failed to address how schools would be able to increase capacity so that all pupils could attend from September.
Early years organisations have criticised the government’s £1 billion National Tutoring Programme for failing to include measures to help pre-school children catch up.
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