The Right Angle Project

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The Right Angle is an award-winning project that is a collaboration between Tutor Trust and TLC: Talk, Listen, Change, the award-winning relationships charity which helps support safe, healthy, happy relationships.

The Right Angle supports children in alternative provision, vulnerable children and Looked After Children, with a combination of tutoring and emotional wellbeing support. This unique approach addresses both the causes and symptoms of under-achievement, dealing holistically with the needs of the pupils referred through schools or virtual schools. We continue to develop tailor-made packages for the young people we support to enable them to develop their confidence and academic ability in tandem.

In 2021-22 we will be working initially with six partners and are looking to expand that in the coming academic year. They are:

Tameside Virtual School
Rochdale Virtual School
Oldham Virtual School
Trafford Alternative Provision
Pendlebury Centre
Highfield’s Pupil Referral Unit (PRU)

The background

The Right Angle project was originally funded by the Department for Education as part of The Alternative Provision Innovation Fund in September 2018. The project was one of just nine selected from 296 applications and the largest across the UK. The project began in Autumn 2018 and in the first two years we worked with 230 children and families across our six Alternative Provision partners in Greater Manchester.

Whilst the DfE funding ended in July 2020 (as had always been planned) the value and impact of our joint project continued to be recognised and supported and, thanks to generous funding from Porticus and the MariaMarina Foundation, we are able to continue our work alongside TLC in a partially-funded, highly-subsidised model.

In July 2020 we were awarded the Fair Education Alliance Scaling Award for The Right Angle. This is a prestigious national award and we are one of only seven winners in the country. This award supports us to grow The Right Angle, understand our impact and, we hope, enable us to reach many more of the most vulnerable young people that we strive to support.

Our Co-Founders Nick Bent and Abigail Shapiro, along with TLC Chief Executive Officer Michelle Hill, stated:

The Right Angle is a unique collaboration, and the combination of both therapeutic and tutoring support has had a positive impact on the young people it has supported.

We are looking to expand the reach of The Right Angle in the coming academic year and, thanks to funding from Porticus and the MariaMarina Foundation, and the support of the FEA’s Scaling Award, we’re positive that we will be able to support even more young people.”