Julie McCulloch, director of policy at the Association of School and College Leaders, responded to the publication of performance statistics for the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) by the Department of Education
Julie McCulloch said,
“The NTP is overly complex and was introduced at a time when schools were under huge pressure and battling high levels of pupil and staff absence caused by COVID. As the scheme is only partially subsidised, it represents a considerable cost to schools to deliver from budgets that are under extreme pressure and is therefore inequitable. Take-up was always going to be variable and the statistics published today simply ‘name and shame’ schools without providing any context of their individual circumstances.
“We have called for schools to be able to access their allocated funding irrespective of whether or not they can afford to further subsidise it themselves. This would not cost the government a penny and would give more pupils access to the tutoring scheme. Sadly this eminently sensible suggestion has been rejected by the government.”
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