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Guidance on National Tutoring programme for schools published
The Department for Education has published information for school leaders on how to provide tuition for pupils through the National Tutoring programme (NTP) in 2022 to 2023.
The NTP was launched in academic year 2020 to 2021 to support schools to provide tutoring to their pupils. On 31 March 2022, DfE announced plans to simplify the programme for AY22/23. These plans involve providing £349 million of core tutoring funding directly to schools and giving them the freedom to decide how best to provide tutoring for their pupils.
The guidance says that for AY22/23, there will continue to be three types of subsidised tuition that schools can offer. These include academic mentors which are employed to work as full-time, in-house staff members to provide intensive support to pupils who need it.
Schools can use tuition partners, which are external tutoring organisations, quality assured by DfE, or they can use 'school-led tutoring', which offers flexibility for schools to use their own staff to provide tutoring, which may involve personnel they currently employ, or staff newly engaged for this purpose (which could include retired teachers, supply teachers, support staff or others).
The guidances says: "Schools that are already providing tutoring to their pupils can continue doing so during AY22/23 under these new arrangements. If you are working with an existing Tuition Partner, you can retain this relationship from September 2022 where the organisation remains on the programme. Employment of academic mentors working in your school currently can continue into next year, with the cost subsidised by your AY22/23 funding allocation. If you have established your own School-Led Tutoring provision this year, this can also continue from the start of the next academic year."
State-funded schools will receive NTP funding over the course of AY22/23 to deliver tuition to their pupils.
This funding is paid in termly instalments via local authorities and academy trusts. The funding is intended to cover 60% of the unit cost of tutoring.
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