Government axes outsourcing firm for England tutoring scheme

Funding for national programme to go directly to schools instead after broad criticism of Randstad

The company running the national tutoring programme (NTP) has been axed and funding will go directly to schools instead after the government was forced into a climbdown over its flagship scheme which will now be overhauled.

Labour accused the government of wasting millions of pounds of public money, and said the NTP revamp announced on Thursday was too little, too late, for too many children".