The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) is supporting the creation of a new, independent charity to compete for the contract to deliver the National Tutoring Programme in the next school year (2021−22).
The new charity will submit a bid to run the NTP as part of the Department for Education’s competitive tender process. To ensure they will be able to begin delivery in September if the bid is successful, a new independent charity, the National Tutoring Foundation, is being established.
Christine Gilbert, the former head of Ofsted, has been appointed as the independent charity’s chair and will oversee the bid to deliver the NTP. If successful, Gilbert will ensure a smooth transition from this school year into the next, including the appointment of further trustees and an executive team
The NTP was set up through a collaboration of five founding charities: the EEF, the Sutton Trust, Teach First, Impetus and Nesta. The EEF and Teach First are responsible for the delivery of the NTP in 2020 – 21.
The EEF has been awarded up to £80 million to deliver NTP Tuition Partners in this school year (2020−21), through which schools are able to access subsidised high-quality tuition from an approved list of providers. To date, over 150,000 pupils in 4,700 schools are participating in the programme. Over 20,000 tutors have been onboarded.
Initial survey data from the NTP Tuition Partners team shows that 80% of a small sample of schools accessing tutoring through the NTP would like to continue next year, with schools saying they would increase the numbers of pupils receiving it by 45% on average.
The founding charities are committed to ensuring the NTP has a legacy in the English school system and will support whichever organisation is selected through the competitive tender process
Sir Peter Lampl, chair of the EEF and of the Sutton Trust, said:
Christine Gilbert, chair of the National Tutoring Foundation, said:
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NOTES TO EDITORS
1) The founding trustees of the National Tutoring Foundation will be:
- Christine Gilbert (chair)
- Graham Elton, Partner, Bain
- Professor Becky Francis, CEO of the EEF
- Sonia Thompson, Headteacher, St Matthew’s Primary School, Birmingham
With others to follow.
3) Christine Gilbert is a visiting professor at UCL Institute of Education. She is involved in a range of education projects, such as the development of place-based partnerships.
Christine has been a teacher, a secondary headteacher and a director of education- first in Harrow and then Tower Hamlets- and a chief executive in two London boroughs. Between 2006 and 2011, Christine held the post of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector at Ofsted.
4) If unsuccessful in their bid to run the NTP, the charity will be dissolved.
5) The Department for Education is currently running a competitive tender process for the contract to deliver the NTP. It’s expected that the successful bidder will be notified at the end of April.