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Press coverage

Action Tutoring is keen to raise awareness of its work and of education inequality, through local and national press, to encourage more people to get involved and make a difference to young lives.

Information for journalists

Email: mediaenquiries@actiontutoring.org.uk 
Telephone: 02037 829382

September 2021

• DAC Beachcroft strengthens support to Action Tutoring through a grant to fund the charity’s national expansion, DAC Beachcroft website

July 2021

• Bulwell MP learns how school is coping with lockdown lost learning, Hucknall Dispatch

• Retiree returns to his native Liverpool and provides tutoring support and inspiration for Merseyside young people, nw connected

June 2021

• Becoming a volunteer tutor changed my life and I’ve never looked back, 50 Plus Magazine

• Deputy Head at St Giles Simrat Mavi shares why they chose to access tutoring and hire an Academic Mentor through the NTP, NTP

May 2021

• Retiree stripped of identity in retirement says volunteer tutoring is one of the best things she has done, SW Connected

• Liverpool university student tutors disadvantaged children and needs your help, NW Connected

• Wolverhampton resident fulfils her dream to make a difference to a child’s life, West Midlands Connected

• TPP First Altogether Better Inclusive Recruitment Grant Winner, TPP

• How tutors help pupils to progress, CYP Now

March 2021

• University student urges peers to tutor struggling pupils, BBC News

• Volunteer tutors needed to help disadvantaged pupils catch up, Smiley News

February 2021

• Online tuition can support disadvantaged pupils to learn remotely, major study reveals, FE News

• Changing with the times: Action Tutoring and home-based tuition, NTP

Highlights from previous years

• South Norwood Primary School – The Pioneer Academy, NTP (Dec 2020)
• ‘The importance of harnessing ‘social power’ to help level the educational playing field’, Education Today (Dec 2020)
• ‘Volunteer tutor from Birmingham helping to bridge the attainment gap for disadvantaged children’, Primary Times (Oct 2020)
• ‘The Advantages Of Tutoring For Disadvantaged Children’, Teaching Times (Oct 2020)
• ‘How can school-charity partnerships help tackle lost learning?’, Schools Week (Oct 2020)
• ‘Big concerns’ over Covid catch-up tutor shortage’, TES (Sep 2020)
• BBC Radio 4, Today programme – discussion on catch up provision (Sep 2020)
• BBC1 Politics England, discussion on school closures and the impact on disadvantaged pupils (Jul 2020)
• ITV News, Tyne and Tees, interview with Action Tutoring CEO, partner school and volunteer tutor (Jul 2020)
• ‘Education sector must throw its weight behind NTP‘, TES (Jun 2020)
• BBC Breakfast, BBC News, ITV Lunchtime News, Channel 5 news, interview with Action Tutoring CEO and footage of online tutoring session discussing catch up provision (Jun 2020)
• BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour, discussion on summer schools (Jun 2020)
• Presenting evidence to the Education Select Committee, Parliament TV (Jun 2020)
• ‘Summer schools, home-learning expectations and Ofsted – how experts think pupils can catch up‘ Schools Week (Jun 2020)
• ‘Charities in talks with ministers over tuition pilot‘ Schools Week (May 2020)
• ‘Army of helpers can save futures of vulnerable children‘, Telegraph (Apr 2020)
• ‘Coronavirus will widen the attainment gap‘, SecEd (Apr 2020)
• ‘Government guidelines impacting vulnerable families’, Telegraph (Mar 2020)