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Government urged to renew funding for flagship catch-up tutoring programme

Source: PA Wire

The Government should renew funding for its flagship tutoring programme to help children who have fallen behind, education leaders have urged.

Failing to embed tutoring as a core part of the future education system would be a “national travesty”, a social mobility expert has suggested.

Funding for the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) – which aims to help pupils in England recover learning missed because of Covid-19 disruption – is expected to end this academic year.

An analysis by consultancy Public First,

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