School-led tutoring “reduced the effectiveness” of the National Tutoring Programme as much as the “failures” of now-axed government contractor Randstad, an education charity has claimed.
A report from Impetus, which helped to establish the national tutoring scheme in 2020, welcomed the Department for Education’s move to close the loophole allowing schools to outsource tutoring to non-approved providers.
Dutch HR firm Randstad faced criticism after overseeing a sluggish take-up in tutoring this year, with a majority of schools choosing to organise their own provision instead.
