How to Become a Tutor (and Be Taken Seriously)

You already know how to help learners. We help you become a trusted, professional tutor — safe, skilled and supported. This is how you get started, get approved, and actually get hired with confidence.

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Your path to becoming a professional tutor

Becoming a tutor is not guesswork. It’s 3 steps.

Lots of people “tutor”. We help you become a safe, prepared, hireable tutor. Here’s how you go from “I think I could do this” to “Parents and schools trust me with their learners”.

Step 1

Get Safe

We help you get (or update) your DBS, understand safeguarding expectations and put the right protections in place — before you work with any child or vulnerable learner.

  • DBS with daily status checks
  • Safeguarding essentials explained in plain English
  • What to do if you’re worried about a learner
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Step 2

Get Skilled

Our Foundations of Effective Tutoring course shows you how to plan impactful sessions, build confidence in learners and work inclusively with SEND.

  • Session design, assessment & feedback
  • Behaviour, motivation & confidence-building
  • Inclusion and SEND with ORA (Observe · Recognise · Adapt)
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Step 3

Get Supported

You don’t have to figure this out alone. You get access to mentoring, real case discussions, pricing guidance, boundaries with parents — and language to use when things get tricky.

  • Regular live community calls
  • Business + safeguarding support
  • Professional identity (you’re not “just tutoring”)
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The Five-Point Check: what makes you “Qualified Tutor Certified”

Parents need to know they’re choosing someone safe and competent. Tutors need protection and clarity. The Qualified Tutor Five-Point Check does both.

We help you build all five. When you’ve met them, you can display the Qualified Tutor Certified badge — instantly signalling trust.

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This is professional. This is personal.

Love Tutoring by Julia Silver captures the heart of why great tutors matter: it’s not just curriculum, it’s care. The book underpins our Safe · Skilled · Supported approach, and it’s part of why so many tutors choose to work with us instead of trying to figure everything out alone.

When you join membership, you’re not just “told what to do” — you’re coached, supported and backed. You get language to use with families, help with boundaries, and a peer network that understands the realities of one-to-one work.

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Are you ready to call yourself a tutor?

You don’t need to do this alone. We’ll help you get safe, get skilled and get supported — then show parents you’re the real thing.

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Do I need qualifications to be a tutor?

Parents aren’t just looking for “someone good at maths”. They’re looking for someone who is safe, reliable and able to build confidence in their child. You do not always need Qualified Teacher Status to become a tutor — but you do need to show that you take safeguarding seriously, you understand how to support learning, and you behave like a professional.

Qualified Tutor membership helps you do exactly that. We support you through DBS, safeguarding and professional conduct so you can work safely with young people. We train you in effective one-to-one tutoring practice, including planning, feedback, assessment and SEND-inclusive strategies. And we mentor you so you’re not figuring out difficult situations on your own.

This is the difference between “I tutor sometimes” and “I am a professional tutor”. When you’re ready to start tutoring, start here.