Private tutoring for primary age children?

Question

I'm thinking of trying to get started on this. Does anyone have any helpful hints please? e.g. if it's ok to do it in your own home, or you need to follow business regulations, where is good to advertise/ find clients, what to charge etc

I'm a fully qualified teacher with police check.

Answer 1

I don't know of any parents who would subject their children to this.
Not being horrible but don't kids spend enough time in school already?

Answer 2

If tutoring other peoples children, you have to be police checked in the UK beforehand. Like nursery schools, there is a legal limit to the amount of children allowed in your home... which requires you to be licenced, to be safety checked, to come under very serious quidelines.

One child at a time, may not require more than the necessary police checks into your own background... ie: criminal checks etc... for quite obvious reasons, so as to ensure the child is not likely to come to harm, since there are some pretty sick people in this world, who try anything to get contact alone, with children.

I home educated my youngest of six children, from 1983-2000, until he went to college and work. As a parent tutor, I was free to do this without all the above, under the 1944 education act, which required children to have a 'suitable education, either at a school 'or otherwise'... the 'otherwise' afforded a group of parents in the sixties and seventies, the loophole that they needed to opt out of state schooling, and to form, what later became known as, Education Otherwise, of which, my son and myself were members.

You speak about tutoring more than one child, whether this is more than one at a time... or in the singular, you will still need to be monitored by the LEA (I had periodic spot checks from various LEAS as we traversed the country with his father's work) and satisfy them all, and all the necessary bodies which may now be involved, that you are sufficiently qualified and safe, to do so.

When he was ten, I brought in three other private tutors for my son... and we only went to one home of a tutor... two came to us, and I monitored them inside my home (French and Maths) the piano tutor however, for obvious reasons, worked from home and so, I sat in.

I advice you to cover yourself by making sure you are fully vetted and licenced to avoid false accusation of improper behaviour... and I seriously advise all parents using/planning to use, home tutors, not to leave them unsupervised with them, unless you first see the police checks and all the qualifications of the tutor... and have checked them out as genuine. A good tutor will welcome this.

And yes... you will be starting a private business by home tutoring other peoples children, so you will need a business plan, necessary equipment, and must pay all the necessary taxes, insurances etc, which will apply.

Go to the following link and see how it works in practice for other... and for tips and advice:

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?search=private+tuition+for+children+in+the+home&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&search_type=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAskb5b6fmOUzyCw1LHu.ao0TBgx.%2FSIG%3D1140u5jk8%2F*-http%3A%2F%2Fuk.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch&p=private+tuition+for+children+in+the+home

Answer 3

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