The Government are committed to every child having access to personalised learning support, which could include small group tuition, to ensure that every child achieves their potential. As part of personalising learning for children and young people, the Government are encouraging schools to consider the opportunities for children beyond the school day, and in particular through extended schools. The extended school core offer includes a varied menu of activities for children and young people, with study support as part of this. The Government have committed over £13 billion over the next three years to support the development of extended schools, and included in this is funding to support small group academic focused study support in some secondary schools, with funding for this becoming available in 2009/10.
In addition, the Every Child a Reader programme is providing support to six to seven-year-olds who are struggling to learn to read. An expert literacy intervention teacher will be trained in every school that is part of this programme. Their first task will be to provide one to one support to children with the greatest difficulties in learning to read. They will also give small group tuition to children with less severe reading difficulties.