Academic year 2021/22

National Tutoring Programme

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  2. This update incorporated new data for School-Led Tutoring submitted by schools after 21st November 2022 and tutoring delivered by Local Authorities and Independent Special Schools. It also expanded school-level data to include the number of hours of tutoring delivered.

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Introduction

This publication contains statistics for the National Tutoring Programme for the 2021/22 Academic Year. The data covers England only. You can find statistics for the National Tutoring Programme for the 2022/23 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 2021 to 2022 academic year, NTP delivered support to schools via three routes: tuition partners, academic mentors and school-led tutoring, where funding was provided directly to schools. 

This publication provides, for 2021/22:

  • Estimates of the total number of tutoring courses delivered, hours of tutoring delivered and the number of pupils who had tutoring delivered to them. 
  • Estimates of the percentages of schools, where ‘schools’ are defined as in the methodology, who participated in the National Tutoring Programme.
  • Estimates of the characteristics of pupils who received tutoring.
  • Transparency data regarding each schools’ participation in the National Tutoring Programme.

Estimates are broken down by region and by different NTP routes: school-led tutoring, tuition partners and academic mentors. Some figures are also broken down by local authority and school phase (e.g. primary, secondary, etc). This release also includes some national figures for NTP in the 2020 to 2021 Academic Year.

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. 

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NTP Courses Delivered to Pupils in the 2021 to 2022 Academic Year

Up to 31st August 2022, DfE estimates that 2,215,386 courses have been delivered to pupils through the National Tutoring Programme in the 2021 to 2022 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.

The number of courses delivered to pupils was not directly measured in school-led tutoring data and therefore these figures are estimates based on data collected about the number of hours of tutoring delivered and the number of pupils who received tutoring. 

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

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Hours Delivered to Pupils on NTP: 2021 to 2022 Academic Year

Up to 31st August 2022, DfE estimates that 24,447,152 total hours of tutoring have been delivered to pupils through the National Tutoring Programme in the 2021 to 2022 academic year. Where a tutor delivered an hour of tutoring for multiple pupils, that course was counted once per pupil. See methodology for more details. 

Estimates of hours per course of tutoring in each region and local authority and to pupils in each phase are given in the tables below.

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School Participation in NTP: 2021 to 2022 Academic Year

Up to 31st August 2022, DfE estimates that 87.4% of schools have so far participated in the National Tutoring Programme in the 2021 to 2022 academic year. Whilst all schools could access NTP funding through the tuition partners route, not all schools were eligible for school-led tutoring funding or an academic mentor. 

Figures for participation by region, local authority and phase type are given in the tables below. Some schools are participating in multiple routes of the programme, hence the percentages for the three individual strands sum to greater than the overall percentage. 

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Pupils Receiving Tutoring on NTP: 2021 to 2022 Academic Year

Overall

Pupils may have received tutoring on multiple routes in the 2021 to 2022 academic year. Aggregated totals across the programme are not provided because the AM data does not allow us to accurately identify the full population of individual pupils. This means that pupils cannot be tracked across the different routes. See methodology for more details.

School-Led Tutoring

Up to 31st August 2022, DfE estimates that  1,367,689 pupils had received tutoring through the School-Led Tutoring route on the National Tutoring Programme in the 2021 to 2022 academic year.

Tuition Partners

Up to 31st August 2022, DfE estimates that 185,907 pupils had received tutoring through the Tuition Partner route on the National Tutoring Programme in the 2021 to 2022 academic year.

Academic Mentors

Up to 31st August 2022, DfE estimates that 92,286 pupils had received tutoring through the Academic Mentor route on the National Tutoring Programme in the 2021 to 2022 academic year.

Regional Breakdown

Estimates of the number of pupils who received tutoring through each route by region are given in the table below. The number of pupils should not be added up across routes in this table because it could mean counting the same pupil twice or even three times.

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Characteristics of Pupils Receiving Tutoring on NTP: 2021 to 2022 Academic Year

Data Sources

Statistics on pupil characteristics are provided for each route below. Because different data is used for each route, we cannot provide aggregated statistics. SLT statistics are produced using School Census data whereas TP and AM statistics are produced using data provided by schools to Randstad. Furthermore, we do not have population data for AM, as explained above.

School-Led Tutoring

As noted above, data from School Census May 2022 is used to produce estimates of the characteristics of pupils receiving tutoring on NTP in the 2021 to 2022 academic year. This is different to the data used to produce estimates of the number of pupils who have received tutoring in the 2021 to 2022 academic year, which is taken from the SLT ‘Year-End Statement’. As such, the percentages here may not necessarily apply to the number of pupils outlined in the previous section. Please see the Methodology for more information. 

The following tables report the breakdown of pupils who received tutoring via the school-led tutoring route in the 2021 to 2022 academic year across characteristics, as of 18th May 2022. 

The following table reports the ethnicity of pupils in England who received tutoring via the school-led tutoring route in the 2021 to 2022 academic year, as of 18th May 2022.

Tuition Partners

The following table reports the percentage of pupils who received tutoring via the tuition partner route in the 2021 to 2022 academic year across reported characteristics, as of 31st August 2022. 

Academic Mentors

The following table reports the estimated percentage of pupils who received tutoring via the academic mentor route in the 2021 to 2022 academic year across reported characteristics, as of 31st August 2022. 

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School-Level Data on School Participation in NTP: 2021/22 Academic Year

By clicking ‘Explore Data and Files’, users of these statistics can view Transparency Data showing each school’s participation in NTP in the 2021 to 2022 academic year.

The file contains data on whether a school (or its predecessors) participated in NTP, including by route. It also contains the number of hours of tutoring delivered in schools, for the Tuition Partners and School-Led Tutoring routes. 

Users should read the description of the school-level data for further details.

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Methodology

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

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.

Contact us

If you have a specific enquiry about National Tutoring Programme statistics and data:

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Email: ntp.statistics@education.gov.uk
Contact name: John Appleton

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