Today 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
Henry,
As a fairly new private tutor I found the interim report both useful and clearly expressed. I appreciated the outline of the legislative background and the broad summary of current research. I also will be very interested to see the results of the tutorpages collaborative piece of research, and the recommendations and guidelines for private tutors stemming from this.
At the moment the situation regarding vetting seems pretty confusing, for tutors as well as parents. I have a CRB but got this mainly because I thought parents might prefer to hire a tutor who had been checked. It still early days but I have never yet been asked for it!
Jonathan