Commenting on research on private tutoring and the impact of extra tuition directed by schools as part of education recovery following the pandemic, Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said:
"The findings released today show that providing schools with direct funding is a more effective means of ensuring that the most disadvantaged students get the support they need.
"The imbalance between additional tutoring received by the most affluent students and the least affluent requires urgent attention and is likely to exacerbate existing educational inequalities. It’s clear that the Government must continue to fund an education recovery package, rather than requiring schools to contribute an ever-greater share. The Government has invested less than a third of what their own advisor said was necessary and the course of action they are choosing risks widening inequality rather than tackling it."