Some tutors on Covid catch-up scheme ‘not good with children’, MPs told

Warning over quality of tutors

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Some of the tutors on the government’s flagship Covid catch up scheme are not trained well enough to help with reading and are “not good with children”, headteachers warned on Tuesday.

School leaders criticised the National Tutoring Programme saying it was “variable”, “inconsistent” and a “bureaucratic nightmare.”