A deep-dive into whether the government’s flagship National Tutoring Programme has helped children to catch up will not be published until the autumn.
The delay means the independent evaluation is likely to be published two years after the scheme’s launch in November 2020.
It is also likely to be on its third contractor, with a raft of changes to encourage school take-up.
The study, run by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), is looking into the scheme’s effectiveness, take-up and impact on pupil progress in its first year, when it was run by five founding charities.
