Arranging Alternative Provision

Alternative Provision (AP) is tailored education for pupils who cannot attend mainstream school due to exclusion, illness, or other reasons.

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:

 

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.

Resources

Additional information and guidance:

  • 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.