Keeping your child safe comes first.

No tutor can appear in our directory or be booked for a single lesson until their enhanced DBS check is completed and verified. That is the enhanced-level check used in the UK for people working with children.

Every tutor is interviewed personally and reviewed by our team before their profile can go live. Tutors write their own profile and set their own rate and availability. Nobody is listed until we have verified them, and we can unlist a tutor immediately if a concern is raised.

Each tutor's name, university, subjects and screening status appear on their profile in our tutor directory before they can take a lesson. You can see who is teaching your child.

Tutors never contact students privately. No personal phone numbers, no social media, no messaging off-platform.

Messages on Elysian stay on Elysian and can be read by our safeguarding team. We tell tutors and students this, and we say it here so you know before you sign up.

Lessons are booked and paid for on the platform, against the tutor's own calendar. Tutors are never given a student's private contact details, and we do not give students a tutor's.

Lessons are not recorded.

Ask to observe a lesson. Message the tutor before the lesson, or tell us, so the family and tutor can agree the arrangement.

Request a different tutor, no reason needed.

Raise a concern directly with a founder and we will review it promptly.