28/04/2026
Recent changes in the law mean that the moment you work with other tutors, you are legally considered a Tutor Agency. This applies whether you employ tutors or work with self‑employed tutors.
The only exception is when you simply recommend tutor names to a client with absolutely no payment or benefit passing between you and the tutors.
If you are a Tutor Agency, you must operate as either:
- an employment business, or
- an employment agency
Which one applies depends on how you work:
You’re an employment business if:
- The client contracts with you
- The client pays your agency
- You then pay the tutor
- The client can contact you (or the tutor) for things like rearranging sessions or getting updates
You’re an employment agency if:
- You introduce the client to the tutor
- The client forms a direct relationship with the tutor (in this model all queries must go
directly to the tutor)
- The client pays the tutor directly for the tutoring
We can help.
Operating as an employment business
If you choose to operate as an employment business then you need this toolkit https://bit.ly/3Hj16Dh
Operating as an employment agency
https://bit.ly/3UeUf2k
Both toolkits contains the agreements/terms which you must have in place with self-employed tutors, as well as those which you must also have in place with clients
