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:
- Request a Risk Assessment from LEBC - Use this form to request a Risk Assessment for one of your students attending an AP.
- Alternative provision (GOV.UK) 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.
The above template is provided as a suggested resource to support schools when visiting pupils placed in alternative provision. Schools may choose to use, adapt, or supplement the template to align with their own policies and procedures.
It is the responsibility of each school to undertake appropriate due diligence and to satisfy itself that any alternative provision placement is suitable, safe, and able to meet the needs of the individual pupil.
Responsibility for assessing, monitoring and assuring the suitability of any placement remains with the commissioning school.