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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale Education correspondent

SHOCKING: Current pupils will have left school before tutoring scheme hits goal says labour - What They Never Told You

Maths teacher in a secondary school classroom with pupils
The national tutoring programme was set up in 2020 by Gavin Williamson to tackle lost learning caused by lockdown and continuing Covid disruption. Photograph: parkerphotography/Alamy

Take-up of the government’s flagship tutoring programme is so slow that all current secondary pupils in England will have left school by the time the Conservatives finally deliver on their education catch-up promises, Labour has said.

Last summer the prime minister announced 100m hours of one-to-one and small-group tutoring over a three-year period to help pupils in England who have fallen behind in their learning due to the disruption caused by the pandemic.

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