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Why is the tutor I need unavailable?

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Tutors registered on The Tutor Pages have an option on their accounts to hide their contact button. There are dozens of reasons for this, including being overrun with enquiries.

However, one of the tutors listed with us – Sophie Garner – had a special reason for doing so.

She’s a singing teacher and recently faced every singer’s worst fear: a vocal operation. As far as she knows, she’s the only singer who has documented something like this on Youtube, and so wanted to let others know about it. Here’s what she told me,

Back in April of this year I had to undergo a vocal operation. This meant I was unable to speak for a week and unable to work for 8 weeks. I am still in vocal rehab now.  I have documented the experience from pre-op to my recovery. I think it would be interesting for other singers/voice users out there to watch the Vlog. I am already getting a great deal of emails from singers and voice users wanting advice which I am only too pleased to give.

You can watch the first of Sophie’s 10 Vlogs here:

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Legal Challenge Launched Against the Vetting and Barring Scheme

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

In an extraordinary move, The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has launched a legal challenge against the Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS), fearing it “will breach nurses’ human rights and have “catastrophic” consequences for their careers,” Nursing Times has revealed.

The legal challenge also follows concerns that the VBS would affect nurses’ relationships at work, making them “overly cautious about comforting or being left alone with patients”. Howard Catton of the RCN said: “Nurses might be scared something as simple as putting a hand on a patient’s arm will be misinterpreted. Or they could become more conscious about talking to patients on their own. If people are acting in a defensive way it might hold back their practice.”

The VBS was set up by the last government to help prevent unsuitable people from working with children and vulnerable adults, and has caused controversy right across the professional and voluntary sectors where the welfare of children and vulnerable adults is paramount.

As the scheme stands, private tutors are not obliged by law to register with the VBS because tutoring is a private arrangement.

In a separate interview with Children & Young People Now, Tim Loughton, the new minister in charge of children’s social care and young people’s services, announced that the government is launching a review of the VBS and the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) to be headed by Professor Eileen Munro. “We’ll be making announcements very shortly about the whole future of the vetting and barring system,” Loughton added.

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The Tutor Pages Launches Survey of the Independent Safeguarding Authority

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Survey of Tutors about the ISA

Today The Tutor Pages has launched a new survey of private tutors’ reactions to the government’s new vetting and barring scheme.

Later this year the UK government will introduce measures intended to protect children and vulnerable adults and reduce the risk of abuse from paedophiles and other unsuitable people. Many of those who work with children will have to register with the government’s Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) under a new vetting and barring scheme.

If you are a tutor or coach, please take part in our survey to voice your opinion on this vitally important issue, and for a chance to win a year’s membership to The Tutor Pages.

If you know any private teachers, we kindly request that you let them know the link below so that they can take part in the survey.

Here is the link to the survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ISAtutorsurvey

Answering the survey takes about 5 minutes.

If you are a tutor, here are three important reasons for taking part in this survey:

  • this scheme will have a profound effect on tutoring in the UK, and our survey will inform you of how you will be affected.
  • gathering a large number of responses means that we can voice the opinions of tutors in general, and promote your best interests.
  • you will have the chance to win one of 50 free memberships to The Tutor Pages (or a free renewal if you’re a current member).

Thank you for your time, and we sincerely hope you will wish to take part.

Sincerely,

Henry Fagg

Director, The Tutor Pages Ltd

Later this year the UK government will introduce measures intended to protect children and
vulnerable adults and reduce the risk of abuse from paedophiles and other unsuitable people.

Many of those who work with children will have to register with the Independent Safeguarding
Authority (ISA) under a new vetting and barring scheme.

If you are a tutor or coach, please take part in our survey to voice your opinion on this vitally
important issue, and for a chance to win a year's membership to The Tutor Pages.

If you know any private teachers, we kindly request that you forward this email to them so that
they are able to take part in the survey.

Here is the link to the survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ISAtutorsurvey

Answering the survey takes about 5 minutes.

If you are a tutor, here are three important reasons for taking part in this survey:

- this scheme will have a profound effect on tutoring in the UK, and our survey will inform you of
how you will be affected.
- gathering a large number of responses means that we can voice the opinions of tutors in general,
and promote your best interests.
- you will have the chance to win one of 50 free memberships to The Tutor Pages (or a free renewal
if you're a current member).

Thank you for your time, and we sincerely hope you will wish to take part.

Sincerely,

Henry Fagg
Director, The Tutor Pages Ltd

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