The Department for Education is being called on to investigate the impact of its withdrawal of funding for tutoring to help disadvantaged pupils catch up on learning lost during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The government wants to embed the tutoring in the school system long term, however it only committed to funding schemes to 2023/24. After this period schools will be expected to fund tutoring themselves, such as through their pupil premium budgets.
The National Audit Office (NAO) is warning ministers they will need to “model the impact of withdrawing the subsidy” after 2023/24 “to assess whether tutoring in schools is financially sustainable given DfE’s objective for tutoring to become embedded in the school system".
