A huge £240 million of tutoring cash has now gone unspent by schools, new figures show, calling further into question the impact of the government’s flagship catch-up scheme.
The figures emerged as a government-funded evaluation found just half of leaders were satisfied with last year’s National Tutoring Programme – which was run by HR firm Randstad. Most were also unhappy with the level of admin around using it.
Government has since overhauled its flagship tutor scheme, with cash now going straight to schools and provider Randstad axed.
Department for Education figures show that in the last financial year, a staggering £178 million, 43 per cent of the tutoring funding for that year, went unspent.
