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tests ta ken by all this is the disadvantage gap index devised by the government itself to track the performance gap in writing and maths between poorer and better off pupils at age 11. as you can see, it had been falling, but in 2022 in the wake of the pandemic that gap jumped to its highest since 2012. there are important questions about whether the design of this national tutoring programme was right, if the funds available were not fully taken up by schools. but there is also some important wider context to this, namely whether the government s education covid catch up funding was ever substantial enough, even if it had all been successfully deployed. the £600 million for the national tutoring programme is only one element of this catch up spending. there was also a catch up premium for all schools, funding for summer schools, and cash for additional teacher training to help them deliver

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