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16 April 2026

Tag: catch-up

DfE plans two-year extension to National Tutoring Programme

The Department for Education intends to extend its National Tutoring Programme for a further two years, Schools Week can reveal. Launched in November to help children catch up on learning lost during the pandemic, the £350 million scheme is due to run until 2022. It’s important that policymakers continue to assess the impact of the […]

£350m National Tutoring Programme faces slipping behind schedule

A £350 million flagship programme offering tuition to help pupils catch up may now fall behind schedule as providers have been told delivery milestones can be “re-forecast”. Plans to provide additional funding to the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) scheme are also being reviewed as a result of school closures. Tuition providers already signed up to […]

Revealed: The 32 providers selected to deliver the National Tutoring Programme

Thirty-two providers, most of them commercial businesses, have been selected to deliver the government’s National Tutoring Programme in its first year. Education giant Pearson, charities The Brilliant Club and Tutor Trust, and prominent tutoring organisations MyTutor and Action Tutoring are among those chosen to provide subsidised tutoring to around 250,000 pupils at schools across England. […]

Autumn catch up must not make pupils feel ‘penalised’

Children who have fallen behind during the coronavirus crisis must not be made to feel they are being “penalised” by having to attend after-school catch-up classes, schools have been warned. The move came after Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy, a secondary in Hackney, emailed parents to say a catch-up programme for pupils who have “not engaged” […]

£1bn schools coronavirus ‘catch-up’ package revealed

The government will spend £1 billion on an education “catch-up plan”, with a large chunk of the cash going directly to schools. Under proposals outlined today, state primary and secondary schools will split £650 million in additional funding for the 2020-21 academic year to help their pupils catch up on education missed as a result […]