There are now two new great places to discuss the tuition industry in the UK.
Firstly, there’s our new online tutor forum.
And secondly, the new Tutor Pages group on LinkedIn.
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The Great Tutoring Debate
Thursday, August 12th, 2010Tags: linkedin tutor, thetutorpages.com, tuition forum, tutor advice, tutor discussion, tutor forum, tutor message board, tutor talk
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Government Announcement on Vetting and Barring: No Change for Tutors
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010The government announced yesterday that full implementation of the Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) by the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) will be halted while it undergoes a thorough review.
The confusion will cause a major headache for organisations which have been preparing for the July kick-off of the scheme.
Self-employed private tutors, for whom the VBS is not a statutory requirement, will be no doubt be watching the ensuing chaos with a sense of relief that they don’t need to get involved. Other tutors won’t be so lucky: they’ll still be affected because of their employment by schools or other so-called Regulated Activity Providers (RAPs).
The good thing is, the information in our recent interim statement on private tuition and the VBS still holds true.
We therefore urge all parents, tutors and others concerned about child protection in the private tuition industry to familiarize themselves with the issues by reading it at:
http://www.thetutorpages.com/media-room/june-2010-child-protection-interim-statement.pdf
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Interim Statement on Private Tutors and the Vetting and Barring Scheme
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Today we’ve published an interim statement giving our take on private tuition, child protection and the Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS).
Find it on The Tutor Pages website under our Media Room, or at the following link:
http://www.thetutorpages.com/media-room/june-2010-child-protection-interim-statement.pdf
We urge all parents, tutors and anyone else involved in private tuition to read it. We hope that our perspective will be informative and that it will encourage debate on the topic (soon we’ll also have a forum on The Tutor Pages so you can voice your comments too).
Child protection is a complex area, and the more you look at it, the more you realise that what is perceived as helpful may not actually be so.
The statement should help clarify the issues for those parents and tutors who are no doubt concerned or confused about this whole area.
Finally, we’ve no idea yet what the new government is going to do about the VBS scheme, so much of this information may change.
Watch this space!
It also mentions an academic research project we’re in the intial stages of colloborating with on this subject.
Any feedback v welcome!
Henry
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