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The National Tutoring Programme is a UK Government scheme announced in June 2020 and launched in November that year forming part of a £1.7 billion catch-up fund to try to address learning loss during the COVID-19 pandemic. It outsources the tutoring of school children to 33 organisations, most of them private companies. The scheme has attracted criticism over cost, claimed inefficiency, and over the use of children as tutors.