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The Department said that tutoring had the potential to be an important and lasting part of the educational landscape.56 However, it acknowledged that the tutoring market was developing, and that securing enough tutors and developing the workforce was a challenge for providers.57 It accepted that it was difficult to get access to good-quality tutoring provision in the places where it was most needed, but it believed that a benefit of establishing a large national programme and therefore a demand for tutors would be the creation of tutoring capacity in places where there might not otherwise be any.58 The Department told us that individuals did not need to have teaching qualifications in order 51 C&AG’s Report, para 3.19 52 Q 72 53 Qq 91–92; C&AG’s Report, paras 3.12 and 3.14 54 Qq 68, 92 55 C&AG’s Report, para 3.15 and Figure 8 56 Q 88 57 Qq 95–96 58 Q 97 16 COVID-19: Support for children’s education to become a tutor, but explained that it wanted there to be a minimum quality standard so that schools had access to good-quality provision. It said that EEF had assessed every tutoring provider that had applied to be part of the scheme.59