Academic year 2022/23

National Tutoring Programme

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• Published: 15 December 2022
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This publication contains statistics for the National Tutoring Programme for the 2022/23 Academic Year. The data covers England only. 

You can find finalised statistics for the National Tutoring Programme for the 2021/22 Academic Year here.

The National Tutoring Programme (NTP) is a scheme that provides support for pupils and students most affected by disruption to their education as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In the 2022 to 2023 academic year, the Department for Education (DfE) provided core funding for the NTP directly to schools to enable them to decide how best to provide tutoring for their pupils. There are 3 routes to providing tuition: academic mentors, tuition partners and school-led tutoring. 

This publication provides, for 2022/23: 

• national, regional, local authority and school phase level estimates of the total number of starts made by pupils on NTP courses up to 19th January 2023 
• national, regional, local authority and school phase level estimates of the percentages of schools participating in the NTP up to 19th January 2023 
• national, regional and school phase level estimates of the characteristics of pupils who received tutoring up to 6th October 2022.  

The publication also includes estimates for the total number of starts made by pupils on NTP courses since NTP began in 2020/21. 

For 2022/23, DfE simplified our process for collecting data on participation in NTP.  In 2021-22, we had three separate data collection mechanisms for each of the three NTP routes (see the methodology for details). This publication uses data captured as part of the Autumn 2022 and Spring 2023 school census, but does not capture information on NTP route. Detailed statistics for NTP in previous years, including breakdown by routes, can be found here. 

Data files are available in the ‘Explore Data and Files’ section on this page.   

These statistics are experimental statistics undergoing evaluation. They have been developed under the guidance of the Head of Profession for Statistics and published to involve users and stakeholders at an early stage in assessing their suitability and quality.  

Experimental official statistics have been produced as far as possible in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics.   

Future of National Tutoring Programme Statistics

In July 2023, DfE will: 

• Publish national, regional, local authority and school phase level estimates of the total number of starts made by pupils on NTP courses up to 18th May 2023 
• Publish national, regional, local authority and school phase level estimates of the percentages of schools participating in the NTP up to 18th May 2023 
• Publish national, regional and school phase level estimates of the characteristics of pupils who received tutoring up to 19th January 2023  

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Headline facts and figures - 2022/23

Of which, course starts by pupils

839,495

since start of 2022/23 academic year up to January 2023.

Starts Made by Pupils on NTP Courses

Up to 19th January 2023, DfE estimates that at least 3,365,598 starts had been made by pupils on courses of tuition provided through the NTP. This is across the 2020 to 2021 academic year, 2021 to 2022 academic year and the 2022 to 2023 academic year. 

Up to January 19th, DfE estimates that at least 839,495 starts had been made by pupils on courses of tuition provided through the NTP in the 2022 to 2023 academic year. 

Not all courses delivered to pupils were 15 hours long. Individual pupils may undertake more than one course. Where a tutor delivered a course to multiple pupils, that course was counted once per pupil. See methodology for more details.  

Schools Participation in NTP

Up to 19th January 2023, DfE estimates that 65.7% of state-funded schools have so far participated in the National Tutoring Programme in the 2022 to 2023 academic year. 

In January 2023, 0.6% schools included had not yet been allocated NTP funding (allocation data is published here). Those schools are included in the calculation of school participation to enable comparison with equivalent rates from previous years and because funding allocations can change throughout the year. 

Characteristics of Pupils Receiving Tutoring on NTP  

Up to the 6th October 2022, DfE estimates that, of the pupils who had received tuition on the NTP: 

• 49.8% were known to be eligible for free school meals (FSM) within the last 6 years.  
• 28.3% were known to have special educational needs.

 

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Starts Made by Pupils on NTP Courses since November 2020

Since the start of the National Tutoring Programme up to the 19th of January 2023, DfE estimates that 3,365,598 course starts have been made by pupils in England.

This figure is for course starts.  Pupils may undertake more than one course. 

The following table shows a breakdown of course starts made by pupils across academic years:

Starts Made by Pupils on NTP courses Since November 2020 to 6th October 2022

	2020 to 2021	2021 to 2022	2022 to 2023	Total
Course starts by pupils on NTP courses	310,717	2,215,386	839,495	3,365,598

1. Figures may not always sum to totals exactly, due to rounding.
2. This data contains estimates of courses started by pupils.   

Source: Spring 2023 School Census

Starts Made by Pupils on NTP Courses in the 2022 to 2023 Academic Year

In the 2022 to 2023 academic year up to January 19th, there have been an estimated 839,495 NTP courses started by pupils.  

This is an estimated increase of  440,556 since the 6th of October 2022.  

Estimates of NTP courses delivered to pupils in each region, local authority and by school phase are given in the tables below.  

School Participation in NTP in the 2022 to 2023 Academic Year

In the 2022 to 2023 academic year up to 19th January 2023, an estimated 65.7% of schools have participated in the National Tutoring Programme. 

This is an increase from the 43.7% of schools who had participated in NTP up to October 2022.  

Not every school is eligible for NTP, you can find out more about eligibility here.  

Estimates for school participation in the NTP by region, local authority and school phase are given in the tables below. 

Characteristics of Pupils Receiving Tutoring on NTP: October 2022

The statistics on pupil characteristics are based on data from the Autumn 2022 school census and therefore only cover up the 6th of October 2022. More details on how these estimates are produced can be found in the methodology. 

Estimates from the Autumn 2022 school census show that in October, 49.8% of pupils tutored on the NTP had been eligible for FSM in the last six years. 

Of the pupils receiving tutoring up to October, 28.3% had special educational needs. In 2021/22, 24.5% of pupils tutored on SLT were known to have special educational needs.  

The following tables report the breakdown of pupils who received tutoring across characteristics by region and by school phase.  

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Methodology

Find out how and why we collect, process and publish these statistics

• National Tutoring Programme Statistics Methodology

Experimental statistics

These statistics are experimental statistics undergoing evaluation. They have been developed under the guidance of the Head of Profession for Statistics and published to involve users and stakeholders at an early stage in assessing their suitability and quality.

Experimental official statistics have been produced as far as possible in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics.

This can be broadly interpreted to mean that these statistics are:

• managed impartially and objectively in the public interest
• meet identified user needs
• produced according to sound methods
• well explained and readily accessible

Find out more about the standards we follow to produce these statistics through our Standards for official statistics published by DfE guidance.

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