Tutor Info & Requirements

What Out of School tutors do, and what applicants should know.

Before applying, please read what's expected of you, your safeguarding responsibilities, and the professional requirements for supporting primary learners online.

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Not an employment opportunity. Out of School does not employ tutors, pay a salary, or offer job status. Tutors operate independently under the Out of School brand. Read the planned payment shares and launch information below; existing agreements remain in force until an agreed transition.
What Tutors Will Do

Everything you need to run your own tutoring business

  • Operate as an independent tutor under the Out of School brand.
  • Find and manage your own students (Years 1–6, Maths/English/SATs/11+).
  • Use the provided platform for homework, tracking, and parent communication.
  • Complete onboarding/training on the platform and tools provided.
  • Follow safeguarding, privacy, and brand standards.
  • Communicate professionally with the Out of School team.
Tutor Requirements

What you’ll need to get started

  • UK resident with the right to work in the UK (required).
  • Good knowledge of primary learning for Years 1 to 6.
  • Ability to teach Maths and/or English.
  • SATs or 11+ experience helpful but not compulsory.
  • Comfortable operating independently and using online tools.
  • Full identity verification, right-to-work evidence and proof of address for both pathways.
  • For one-to-one tuition: required DBS and safeguarding checks, proof of address and relevant qualifications/experience. Additional checks for platform support depend on duties and contact with children.
  • Agreement to safeguarding, privacy, and brand standards.
Important: submitting an application does not guarantee approval. Applications will be reviewed before your tutor account goes live.

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Two tutor pathways

Choose how you want to support families

1. Platform Access and Progress Plus support

Manage your own students' home learning, review assigned work and monitor progress. For Progress Plus, provide the two included parent progress meetings each month.

  • Full identity verification is required.
  • Right-to-work evidence is required.
  • Proof of address is required.
  • Complete platform onboarding and follow privacy and safeguarding standards.

Platform-support-only tutors cannot offer or deliver one-to-one lessons. This pathway covers Platform Access and Progress Plus support only. Any additional safeguarding checks are determined before approval according to your duties and contact with children.

Families who join through your link are your students. If they want one-to-one lessons, they can book an approved listed one-to-one tutor; the child stays your student for the subscription.

2. Online one-to-one tuition and platform support

Approved online one-to-one tutors can do both: provide Platform Access and Progress Plus support AND deliver one-to-one lessons. They must meet the platform-support requirements as well as all additional one-to-one requirements.

Offer standard one-hour lessons at £30 per session or, following suitability review, SEND one-hour lessons at £40 per session.

  • Full identity verification, right-to-work evidence and proof of address are required.
  • Complete the required DBS and safeguarding checks before working with pupils.
  • Provide relevant qualifications and experience for review.
  • For SEND tuition, describe relevant training, experience and needs you can support.

Documents and suitability must be approved before lessons start. The team will confirm the complete evidence requirements during onboarding.

You get your own students and their one-to-one lessons: families who join through your link can book lessons only with you. You can also receive lesson bookings from Out of School, agent-referred and platform-support tutors' families through the listed-tutor directory.

Choose your pathway on the application form. Choose platform support only, or the combined one-to-one and platform-support pathway. Platform-support-only approval does not permit one-to-one lessons. SEND tuition also requires a separate suitability review.

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Duties and benefits

What tutors do and what they get

Every tutor supports their own students on the platform in return for 70% of those students' subscriptions; one-to-one tutors also teach lessons for 80% of each lesson.

Duties

DutyPlatform-support tutorOne-to-one tutor
Bring and look after your own students through your join linkYesYes
Review the homework the system sets and adjust it before it is releasedYesYes
Watch progress and follow up missed homework with the familyYesYes
Hold the two Progress Plus parent meetings a month for your own studentsYesYes
Keep student notes (private and parent-visible); never record diagnoses or private recordsYesYes
Keep your identity, right-to-work and address documents up to dateYesYes
Follow safeguarding, privacy and brand rules; report any concern to the safeguarding leadYesYes
Never take money from parents: parents pay Out of SchoolYesYes
Teach one-hour lessons only through the platform video link, with a parent at home—Yes
Keep a session log for every lesson—Yes
Keep your Enhanced DBS current (Update Service)—Yes
Teach SEND lessons only after a separate SEND suitability approval—Yes

Benefits

BenefitPlatform-support tutorOne-to-one tutor
70% of your own students' subscriptions: £21 a month per Platform Access student, £31.50 per Progress Plus studentYesYes
80% of every lesson you teach: £24 per standard lesson, £32 per SEND lesson—Yes
Lesson bookings from Out of School, agent and platform-support tutors' families through the tutor list—Yes
A ready-made platform: homework, Maths, English, SATs, MTC and 11+ questions, progress trackingYesYes
No billing or chasing payments: Out of School collects every payment and pays the card feesYesYes
The Out of School brand, website and G-Cloud 15 supplier backingYesYes
Tutor Guide, Q&A and onboardingYesYes
Council contract work: earn from the council one-to-one lessons you teach (only one-to-one tutors teach council pupils; rate set per contract)—Yes
"DBS checked" status shown to parents—Yes

Online booking of standard one-to-one lessons is open to families with a platform plan; tutor earnings payouts are still being finalised. Tutors are independent and self-employed; students, bookings and income are not guaranteed.

Tutor model and earnings

Bring your students and support their learning

Independent tutors bring and manage their own students, review the homework the system sets for them (adjusting it when needed), monitor progress and provide the parent meetings included in their students' chosen plan. Platform and agent-referred families are managed by the Out of School team.

What is live and what is being prepared

Since 2 November 2026, parents pay Out of School directly at £30 or £45 a month, and tutors no longer subscribe students or pay a tutor bill. Since 4 November 2026, families with a Platform Access or Progress Plus plan can book and pay for standard one-hour lessons online with approved one-to-one tutors whose documents have been verified. The tutor earnings shares below and payouts are still being finalised and are not active yet. Your applicable terms and launch arrangements will be confirmed before you start.

Planned payment shares before refunds; processing fees come from Out of School's share
ServiceParent priceTutor shareOut of School share
Your student's Platform Access£30/month£21 (70%)£9 (30%)
Your student's Progress Plus£45/month£31.50 (70%)£13.50 (30%)
Standard one-to-one lesson£30 / one-hour session£24 (80%)£6 (20%)
SEND one-to-one lesson£40 / one-hour session£32 (80%)£8 (20%)

Progress Plus includes two parent progress meetings per month. Live tuition is a separate session purchase. Earnings depend on confirmed payments and the agreed refund and cancellation arrangements; applying does not guarantee students, bookings or income.

Who parents can book

Under the booking model: families who sign up through Out of School or an agent link are Out of School students and can book any approved listed one-to-one tutor. Families who join through a platform-support-only tutor's link are that tutor's students; that tutor cannot teach one-to-one, so these families can book any approved listed one-to-one tutor and the child stays that tutor's student for the subscription. Families who join through an approved one-to-one tutor's link are that tutor's students and can book lessons only with that tutor. Delivering a lesson to another tutor's or a platform student does not transfer that student's subscription to you.

Payments and agent referrals

Parents pay Out of School directly through its approved payment process; tutor earnings will be accounted for from those payments. A referring agent receives £5 for each paid platform subscription month; this is separate from tutor earnings and does not apply to lesson bookings. Booking, earnings statements and payout arrangements will be confirmed at launch.

Optional SEND tuition

Applicants who wish to support children with special educational needs and disabilities should choose the combined pathway and describe relevant experience, training and the needs they can support in the SEND section of the application form. This offering requires review and confirmation of suitability; choosing it does not itself approve you to deliver SEND tuition. Do not include children's private details.

From application to teaching

  1. Submit your application and CV.
  2. The team reviews your experience and contacts you.
  3. Complete required identity, right-to-work and safeguarding checks through the team's secure document process.
  4. Agree the applicable tutor terms, complete onboarding and confirm what you can offer.
  5. Start supporting pupils only after approval and confirmation of access.

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Questions before you apply?

Read answers for teachers, university students and tuition-centre owners, plus guidance on pathways and checks.

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