Education recovery cash totalling £226 million went unspent, a report claims, renewing calls that ministers’ plans to embed tutoring in schools while withdrawing subsidies is “unsustainable”.
A report National Audit Office, the public spending watchdog, assessed the value-for-money of the £3.5 billion of Department for Education funding designated to help pupils catch up.
The report found overall that children are “making progress” in recovering lost learning, however disadvantaged pupils remain further behind compared to their peers.
But auditors found a £226 million underspend on the recovery funding provided up until the end of the 2021-22 financial year.
