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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Nearly 500,000 pupils 'miss out on Covid catch up' provision ahead of GCSEs

Nearly half a million children could be starting their GCSEs this week without getting any support from the flagship Covid catch up scheme.

Labour analysis found that 490,800 Year 11 pupils were estimated to have missed out on help from the National Tutoring Programme this year.

Boris Johnson promised personal tutoring provision to help children catch up after the pandemic wreaked havoc on their learning.

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