Up to one in five schools face having their catch-up cash clawed back this year because they did not provide details of how it was spent.
Schools had until last month to submit their mandatory “year-end statement” on how they spent their National Tutoring Programme (NTP) grant in 2022-23, even if they didn’t use the money.
If the form is not submitted, the Education and Skills Funding Agency recovers all of a school’s allocation.
About 4,200 schools (20 per cent) had not completed the form at the closing date on October 12, the DfE said in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request.
