No wonder teaching unions have "reacted cautiously" to government plans for "a year-long national tutoring programme" (Schools to hire private tutors to aid pupils, 18/06/20). It`s clearly yet another example of this government being so out of touch it has to apply "window dressing" to a problem in the hope that the public will be fooled into thinking a solution has been found.
Rather than develop this "multimillion-pound programme", involving and perhaps creating, thousands of private tutors, would it not be more sensible to give the job to the people who already know the children, have their trust, are aware of their backgrounds, and have vast experience of helping pupils "catch up on lost learning" - the teachers? Far better to give classroom teachers the massive pay rise they deserve, and allocate a large sum of money, dependent on numbers and location, to each school to be spent on "lost education" projects, with Ofsted, or another government agency, checking on how effectively the money has been spent.
The government ignored local expertise when introducing its "test and trace" programme, preferring private companies, and it obviously has not learned its lesson. Can we expect, when the true number of tutors needed is revealed, Serco to be given the job?
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