Department for Education ditches Year 7 ‘catch-up training’ fund before it opens
A Government scheme, which promised schools up to £25,000 each to help improve the literacy and numeracy of Year 7 pupils, has been unceremoniously scrapped, months after bidders were supposed to hear back.
Last autumn, the Department for Education invited bids from teaching and research schools for ‘Year 7 catch-up training’. Successful bidders would use the cash to work with schools identified as needing “additional support” with struggling 11-year-olds.
Bidders were supposed to hear back from the Government about the status of their funding shortly after the assessment period, which ended on the 29th December.
But in an email to applicants, the DfE said it has now “decided not to proceed with funding for these 2017-2018 projects”, and instead encouraged schools to apply for cash from its Strategic School Improvement Fund.
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