The tutoring professional body The leading tutoring industry's body is the Tutor’s Association, who aim to professionalise the industry by encouraging tutoring organisations and registered tutors to sign up to the Association's Code of Practice for Organisational and Individual members and the Code of Ethics for Individual Tutors
‘The Tutor’s Association aims to professionalise the industry’
The Tutors' Association's main purposes are to: • To create a community for members of the tutoring profession, where they can: o Exchange knowledge and experience o Get access to information and services that assist with their day-to-day work o Provide mutual support and encouragement • To provide a unified and coherent voice for the tutoring profession so that it can: o Engage constructively with all the other stakeholders in the provision of education o Help ensure that the profession is perceived accurately and positively o Create mutually beneficial partnerships within the wider educational landscape • To provide reassurance to parents that the tutor they have selected: o Has committed to professional standards by signing up to a Code of Practice o Presents no known risk to their child by having been successfully DBS checked o Has proven their competence by providing testamentary evidence of the successful completion of tutorial engagements Membership annual fees range from £30 for undergraduate students to £99 for freelance / individual tutors. More information about the professional body is available at: https://thetutorsassociation.org.uk/ The Private Tutoring Handbook
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