In September 2007, HSBC provided £1m to pay for tutors for 1,000 children in care over two years. But CYP Now can reveal that only 94 young people were given tutors by the start of April.
Nick Guest, development manager at Fleet Tutors, the private firm used by three of the four councils testing the initiative, said local authorities had so far been slow at getting the project up and running.
"We've lost a third or half of the academic year," he said.
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