Ministers have appointed tutoring troubleshooters to ensure the flagship catch-up scheme stays on track.
The Department for Education has set up a “strategic tutoring advisory group” to make sure the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) succeeds and embeds tutoring into the sector.
It comes after faltering take-up last year and criticism that the programme is too complicated.
The contractor Randstad was axed and all £349 million goes directly to schools this academic year.
The recently formed group will be chaired by Nick Brook, the deputy general secretary of the school leaders’ union NAHT, who has advised the DfE on tutoring in the past.
