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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale Education correspondent

School heads urge Labour to continue funding national tutoring scheme

Reema Reid, headteacher, faces camera smiling in next to some work done by children
Reema Reid, headteacher at Hollydale primary school in south-east London, says the scheme has been ‘really effective’. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

Ministers are being urged to find new funding to save thenational tutoring programme, which is due to close this week four years after it was launched to help children in England catch up after the Covid crisis.

Headteachers say the NTP has had a hugely beneficial impact on many children hardest hit by the disruption caused by Covid and the subsequent cost of living crisis.

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