Half of the 22 million tutoring hours last year were completed by just 10 per cent of the country’s schools – exposing huge variance in take-up with children in rural areas missing out.
National Tutoring Programme (NTP) league tables, published last week, showed schools did not spend a third of last year’s tutoring cash – £114 million – which will be clawed back and returned to the Treasury.
Overall, half did not use all their school-led catch-up allocation to organise tutoring themselves.
However, schools had to contribute 25 per cent of tutoring costs, which many said they could not afford. Others said the scheme was too bureaucratic and chose to do their own catch-up.
