Ministers have clawed back £114 million of unspent tutoring cash – over a third of the amount handed out last year – with nearly half of the country’s schools not using all their catch-up allocation.
Controversial leagues tables showing each schools’ National Tutoring Programme uptake last academic year were published this morning, despite pushback from unions who said figures show how cash-strapped schools are, rather than their appetite for tutoring.
The data reveals that 10,700 out of about 21,000 eligible schools did not spend all of their school-led catch-up allocation.
The cash only subsidises the costs of tuition, with schools last year expected to contribute 25 per cent.
