Three in ten schools shunned the national tutoring programme last year, and take-up has continued to fall this term, new data shows.
Department for Education data also shows just 45.5 per cent of tutoring reached disadvantaged pupils in 2022-23, down from 47.4 per cent the year before.
Ministers had previously said they wanted 65 per cent of provision to be for poorer children.
Today’s data is the first to cover the whole of the 2022-23 academic year, when all tutoring funding went directly to schools after NTP provider Randstad was axed.
