Labour responds to reports that Government has sacked National Tutoring Programme provider

Bridget Phillipson MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, responding to reports that the Government has sacked National Tutoring Programme provider Randstad, said:

“The Conservatives’ flagship tutoring programme has failed our children and wasted millions of pounds of public money. 

“The Education Secretary is finally catching-up but this is too little, too late, for too many children.

“Labour’s ambitious recovery plan would deliver tutoring, breakfast and after school clubs and mental health counsellors in every school, supporting every child to learn, play and develop.

“Children have been an afterthought for this government. It’s time Ministers matched Labour's ambition for children's futures.”