The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) was introduced by the Department for Education (DfE) in the 2020-21 academic year to provide subsidised tuition to disadvantaged pupils and help close the attainment gap caused by school closures in response to Covid-19. The NTP is now in its third year and, attention is turning to the long-term sustainability of the NTP and the future of tutoring more widely.
This project used NFER’s Teacher Voice Omnibus survey to gather the views of 439 school leaders from a nationally representative sample of schools in England to understand:
- The extent to which the NTP is offering additional value to schools and pupils.
- The factors that influence the potential of tutoring to become a sustainable intervention that schools can use to improve attainment amongst disadvantaged pupils in the future, including senior leaders’ experiences of the NTP.
