Sutton Trust polling on private tutoring and an Education Endowment Foundation project evaluating private tutoring for students from low income backgrounds are mentioned by Anna Davis in the Evening Standard.

London parents were today warned to resist the growing pressure to employ tutors for children under the age of five…Tutoring is rife in London, with more children given after-school coaching than anywhere else in the country.
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The charity warned that the boom in private tutoring, which can cost up to £40 an hour, is putting poorer children at a disadvantage.
Sir Peter Lampl, chairman of the trust, said: “Parents naturally want to do the best for their children. Providing private tuition for them puts those children whose parents can’t afford it at a disadvantage.”

The Sutton Trust’s sister charity, the Education Endowment Foundation, is testing the impact of offering private tuition to youngsters from low income backgrounds. It is analysing the work of the Tutor Trust, which trains university students to give tuition in challenging schools. One in seven of the lessons is given free of charge.

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Further Coverage

Parents Warned Of ‘Charlatan’ Private Tutors (Teaching Times)