EVERY secondary school pupil will have left by the time the Tories’ extra tuition promises come good, Labour warns today.
Boris Johnson pledged last summer to deliver 100 million hours of post-Covid tutoring in three years for England.
The Government called it a catch-up “revolution”.
But last year just 1.2 million pupils out of more than eight million started their 15-hour tuition blocks designed to make up for lost hours in the pandemic.
Based on that rate, shadow education minister Stephen Morgan says the PM’s target will not be reached for at least five and a half years.
The National Tutoring Programme scheme has been blighted with delays so far.
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Ministers were forced to sack Dutch provider Randstad after a catalogue of failures.
Mr Morgan told Trending In The News: “This Government’s farcical failure to help children recover lost learning threatens to limit their opportunities for decades to come.
“Millions of children will have left school before the Government delivers the support it promised.”
