Home-School Tutoring Hertfordshire & Cambridgeshire Ltd (HST) offers personalised one-to-one tutoring support to make education accessible for all, including children in mainstream education, alternative provision (AP), or those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). Its tutors take the time to tailor learning to each child’s individual needs, goals, and style, in turn unlocking their potential and building their confidence. Recognised as Best Personalised Tutoring Services Provider 2026 – East of England, we spoke to Sarah Jones, its co-owner, to learn more about HST’s award-winning offering. Unlocking Potential and Building Confidence Home-School Tutoring Hertfordshire & Cambridgeshire Ltd is owned and run by Sarah Jones, a former deputy head and headteacher, alongside Matthew Jones, who has extensive experience in behaviour management and specialist education settings. Between them, they bring industry-leading, first-hand understanding of UK curriculum demands, school processes, and complex learning needs. They utilise this alongside partnering with schools, local authority SEND teams, and families to provide adaptable one-to-one and small group provision for young people who are educated outside of mainstream settings, accessing EOTAS (Education Otherwise Than At School), or facing Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA). “What drives us every single day is watching a student transform,” Sarah explained. “Achievement looks different for every child. For one student, it might be passing their GCSEs; for another, it might be opening a textbook for the first time in six months, building emotional resilience, or simply smiling as they engage with a tutor in a low-pressure community setting.” She continues, “We believe that a SEND diagnosis or emotional difficulty should never set a ceiling on what a young person can achieve. When given the right environment, patient support, and a practitioner who genuinely understands their needs, students can – and do – reach incredible goals. Helping a young person regain their love for learning doesn’t just change their educational trajectory – it restores hope, confidence, and peace of mind to their entire family.” HST keeps a single ethos at its core: ensuring every child has access to the right support, from the right person, at the right time. It delivers academic tuition across key stages, meeting students where they learn best, whether at home, at school, online, or in safe community venues. Its services can come in the form of bespoke one-to-one tuition, small group academic tuition, and therapeutic alternative provision packages, such as specialist low-pressure sessions using LEGO Therapy and Drawing & Talking to nurture emotional resilience alongside academic progress. “We saw an urgent need for an approach that refuses to let any young person slip through the net. For us, education is not a onesize-fits-all model. It is about discovering what makes each student tick, dismantling the barriers that hold them back, and giving them the tailored space they need to thrive.” Within its offering, HST is committed to ensuring the utmost safety and happiness of every student. For instance, it operates a strict recruitment criterion and performs under full DfE-recognised safeguarding arrangements, including enhanced DBS checks, prohibition checks, and regular quality assurance to ensure high standards are consistently met. When matching a young person to a tutor, HST will visit them and their family to capture the “pupil and parent voice”, so it can get to know their unique needs and ensure a strong fit. Clients continue to highlight the incredible impact of HST’s work – including how their children have gone from feeling overwhelmed to looking forward to their sessions, feeling more confident, and engaging in learning again. This is while schools and local authority caseworkers praise it for its speedy response times, quality of tutor matching, and clear reporting, noting that its tutors successfully reengage learners where standard interventions have previously struggled. Now, the only way for Home-School Tutoring Hertfordshire & Cambridgeshire is up, as its focus remains on sustainable, high-quality growth while staying true to its personal, child-centred ethos. A key milestone within this will see the opening of a second dedicated hub space to house an accredited, lowarousal exam centre, as well as the expansion of its accessible qualification pathways like functional skills and the implementation of holistic wellbeing tracking. With all of this in mind, Sarah concluded, “Our priority remains clear: to scale our AP services and local authority partnerships without ever compromising the strict quality standards, bespoke tutor matching, and deeply personal care that define us.” Contact: Sarah Jones Company: Home-School Tutoring Hertfordshire & Cambridgeshire Ltd Website: www.homeschooltutoringhertscambs.co.uk
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