Coronavirus Catch-up Premium and National Tutoring Programme

(asked on 4th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether every school has received its first allocation of catch-up premium funding; and how many tutors funded by the National Tutoring Programme have been working in schools in England during the autumn 2020 term.


Answered by
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Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 14th December 2020

The universal catch up premium funding, worth £650 million overall, will be delivered in 3 payments across the 2020/21 academic year. The first payment, 25% of the total, has been made to schools already, totalling to £159,011,640. The second payment of catch up premium funding will be made early in the new year and the third payment in the summer term.

The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) will provide additional, targeted support to disadvantaged pupils who need the most help to catch up. Through the programme, schools will be able to access high-quality, subsidised tuition from approved Tuition Partners and our most disadvantaged schools will be supported to employ in-house Academic Mentors to provide tuition to their pupils.

The NTP went live on 2 November 2020 and schools are now able to access tuition to support disadvantaged pupils that need the most help to catch up. Our delivery partner for the Tuition Partners pillar, the Education Endowment Foundation, has approved 33 Tuition Partners who will offer high-quality, subsidised tuition to schools. For this academic year, it is estimated that, through the Tuition Partners, approximately 15,000 tutors will support the scheme offering tuition to around 250,000 pupils.

In addition to this, the first 188 Academic Mentors have now been placed in schools from November. In total we will place 1,000 Academic Mentors, with the further cohorts starting in schools in January and February 2021.

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