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Last modified on Thu 29 Apr 2021 17.32 EDT Schools are struggling to access the government’s controversial national tutoring programme (NTP) aimed at supporting disadvantaged children in the wake of the pandemic because of a shortage of qualified tutors in some parts of England, school leaders have warned. The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) called on the government to give schools more funding and allow them greater flexibility to use staff they may be familiar with, which would enable them to widen the scheme swiftly in order to meet pupils’ needs. “In some parts of the c...

Ministers should focus their attention on providing schools with enough funding so they can provide quality catch-up support for pupils rather than “policy gimmicks”, a headteachers’ union has said. Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said speculation about longer school days and shorter holidays to help children was “misconceived and unhelpful”. It comes as schools standards minister Nick Gibb said he is “open to all ideas” on how to help pupils catch up amid the pandemic. Asked whether he preferred the proposal of extending ...

Ministers should not focus on ‘policy gimmicks’ to help pupils catch up – heads Updated: February 9, 2021, 7:03 pm Euan Stanton, a year 7 pupil at a secondary school in Ashford, Kent, studies at home (PA) Ministers should focus their attention on providing schools with enough funding so they can provide quality catch-up support for pupils rather than “policy gimmicks”, a headteachers’ union has said. Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said speculation about longer school days and shorter holidays to help children was “misconc...