Will I still be paid for the work that I have completed? Expand Yes absolutely, you will be paid for any tuition session that took place. All tutors should have been paid for last month’s work by the 25th March (please let us know if you have not been paid). Any work that was delivered in March will be paid by 25th April 2020. Please ensure that your registers are completed and up to date on Tutor Portal or Google Docs. If there is an error with your register or if it is not yet on Tutor Portal, please email your attendance data from the past few weeks to your Co-ordinator.
Will I be paid for any work I had lined up? Expand Tutor Trust relies on payment from schools; therefore, all the money we receive is for tuition that has actually taken place. If tuition is cancelled due to school closures, usual policy states that tutors will not be paid for the sessions planned. This policy will stay the same in current circumstances; therefore, we unfortunately cannot pay you for forecasted sessions that will now not take place.
Are Tutor Trust providing any financial support for tutors who are all self-employed? Expand As a not-for-profit charity, we can only generate revenue through our services and therefore will not have the means to financially support tutors outside of paying them for their work. We will be taking the lead from the government on how to provide for self-employed workers. This will be under constant review and we will support and advise our tutors as best we can as the situation changes. If the situation changes, we will update you on here.
What is the Tutor Trust's policy for pay now that the government has announced provisions for self-employed workers? Expand On 26th March, the government announced measures to protect registered self-employed workers. You can find out more about these measures here and we encourage you to follow their guidelines. The government had previously announced measures to support wages of employees who have become furloughed. We want to remind tutors that, as they are self-employed and not employees of Tutor Trust, they are not included in these measures unfortunately. The HMRC Government scheme is designed to help support the self-employed during the period between March 2020 – May 2020 (3-months). To see if you qualify for the scheme please follow this link: https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/self-employment-support/enter-unique-taxpayer-reference
Is there any work currently available for Tutors? Expand Schools are closed to the majority of pupils and tuition is cancelled unless a coordinator has specified otherwise. Tutors will be updated if there are any new approaches to tuition.
Will we be moving to online tuition? Expand We are beginning to pilot an online tuition programme, which will take place in late April. To move forward with our plans, we need to gather as much information about our tutors and tutoring online as possible; we ask that all tutors fill out this survey to highlight their interest in and experience of online tuition. There are also other high-level discussions going on about providing online tuition (for free) to disadvantaged pupils, in partnership with schools. These plans may include families getting help with broadband access, access to decent computer equipment, etc. As a leading education charity, Tutor Trust is involved in these discussions and we will keep you posted about them.
Is there anything I can do to help in the meantime? Expand If you have used or made any great resources this academic year, please email them to our team at the email address below and these can be shared on our Dropbox in preparation for the new academic year: [email protected] We encourage our tutors to get involved with community projects where possible. Remember you have an Enhanced DBS which could make you eligible for additional volunteering opportunities. Some opportunities to help in these circumstances include: Manchester Cares Volunteering with Acorn, based in Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester Manchester Central Foodbank Find your local COVID-19 mutual aid group Donate to UNICEF to help Children affected by COVID-19 Sign up to NHS Volunteers
When will we be able to start working again? Expand While schools are closed for the majority of students, tuition opportunities will be limited. We will do everything we can to get back up and running once schools reopen and our work will be more important than ever due to the break in education inevitably widening the attainment gap. The work of our tutors will therefore be more valuable than ever when tuition resumes.
I didn't manage to start tutoring this year, can I tutor in the next academic year? Expand If you have completed our training programme you can work with The Tutor Trust in the next academic year. All tutors intending to work in the next academic year will need to attend the Compulsory Returning CPD in the Autumn term.
I am a new tutor - will you still process my references and DBS? Expand We are continuing to process references; however, we cannot guarantee DBSs will be issued until the new academic year begins.
Will the fact I'm unavailable to tutor affect my chances of getting assignments in the future? Expand We know social distancing measures, isolation and sickness will make people unavailable for work at this time. These interferences with normal life will not rule you out of assignments in the future.
Will my Advanced Tutor status be affected? Expand We appreciate the dedication our tutors have shown us this academic year and will continue to celebrate this through our Advanced Tutor Pathway. Your Advanced Tutor score will roll over to the next academic year where there will be many more opportunities to boost it further. For any tutors who had progressed far enough along the Pathway and were just waiting to reach the 50 required hours of tuition, the tuition you were set to have provided will be taken into account and you could still receive Advanced Tutor Status.