Please note - this is not a list of AP recommendations and schools must still carry out their own quality assurance checks before placing a child or young person.
Our handbook provides guidance for educational settings that are supporting students with alternative education:
Search our directory to find a list of AP providers within the area, including details of key stage learning, types of support offered and qualifications , ensuring that you read the Guidance tab on the directory before using it:
Resources
Additional information and guidance:
- Request a Risk Assessment from LEBC - Use this form to request a Risk Assessment for one of your students attending an AP.
- Alternative provision - provides statutory guidance for local authorities, as well as headteachers and governing bodies of settings providing alternative provision.
- Non-school alternative provision: voluntary national standards - Department for Education (DfE)’s non-statutory standards for non-school alternative provision (also known as unregistered alternative provision).
- Internal Alternative Provision guide provided by The Difference - provides access to ‘What works: Four tenets of effective internal alternative provision – a research report outlining a framework for establishing in-school support to prevent exclusions and support vulnerable learners through integrated, evidence-based, and relational approaches.
- Oakfield Short Stay School - Leicestershire-based pupil referral unit, for children aged five to 16, including support for those at risk of or experiencing exclusion.