Sir Peter Lampl: open up private tuition to poor pupils

Many middle class families hire private tutors to give their children a leg up in the education arms race. Their extra investment gives better off children further advantage in a school system already loaded in their favour.

Today’s new Sutton Trust report, Shadow Schooling, details for the first time the extent of tutoring. It shows not only that a quarter of all children have received private tuition at some stage, but that one in 10 did so last year.

Nearly half of all state school teachers have supplemented their income by offering private lessons. And the industry is calculated to be worth up to £2 billion a year.

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