Support for Looked-After Children
Consistent tuition for children in care — built around continuity, aligned to PEP targets, and delivered by teams who understand what these young people carry.
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Supporting Children in Care
Children in care often carry significant disruption into their education — placement changes, involvement of multiple professionals, and the emotional weight of their circumstances alongside the demands of learning. Many have already experienced provision that couldn’t hold when things got complicated.
We treat looked-after children as a distinct area of practice. That means understanding each child’s full circumstances before the first session begins, maintaining continuity of the tutor relationship as a priority, and staying involved as a consistent presence, even when circumstances around the child change.
We work alongside Virtual School Heads, social workers, carers, and schools to ensure our support is integrated with the wider plan for the child, not delivered in isolation from it.
What Schools and Virtual School Heads Can Expect
The person working with you on this programme knows the child’s history, works alongside Virtual School Heads, social workers, and carers as part of the wider team, and remains your consistent point of contact throughout. In practice, that means:
A tutor report submitted after every session
Termly progress reviews aligned to PEP targets, feeding directly into review meetings
Attendance at PEP meetings where invited
Proactive contact when a child’s placement or circumstances change
Increased communication frequency for children with particularly complex needs
Any unexplained absence treated as a potential safeguarding signal
How We Support Looked-After Children
Consistency is the foundation of everything we do with these young people. For children who have experienced repeated disruption, a trusted relationship with one tutor who shows up reliably and adapts to where the student is on any given day is often what makes academic progress possible at all.
Meet with the school or Virtual School Head
Understand the child’s history, current placement, and PEP targets.
Develop a whole-student profile
Covering academic needs alongside the emotional and social factors affecting learning.
Match the child to a tutor
With experience working with looked-after children and the patience and consistency this cohort requires.
Develop an Individual Learning Plan
An ILP aligned to PEP targets and reviewed termly.
Assign a named local contact
The single point of contact throughout.
Sessions are delivered at home, in school, or via LessonSpace, our online tutoring platform of choice — wherever the child is most likely to engage. When a child moves placement, we work to maintain tutor continuity wherever possible. We request involvement in PEP meetings where invited, and attend where we can — because what happens in those meetings directly shapes the support we provide.
Our Process
A clear, consistent path from first conversation to ongoing support — so you always know what happens next and who’s accountable at every stage.
Understand
We take time to understand the student — their educational needs, circumstances, and what the school or council needs from the programme.
Plan
We develop an Individual Learning Plan (ILP), aligned to EHCP targets where applicable, and agree reporting format and cadence with you from the outset.
Match
We match the student to the right tutor based on subject knowledge, experience, and the right fit for their specific needs.
Support
We stay involved throughout, adapting the programme as needs change and keeping your team informed at every stage.
I’ve found them responsive; they’ve met our needs, been incredibly supportive and understanding of our students, and built really solid relationships, which has meant that engagement in education has improved in all the cases we’ve referred to them.
Working Together to Support Your Students
Connect with our team to get started, or to explore how our tuition programmes are designed to fit around your needs and your students.
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