"Alternative provision" refers to education or support services that are provided outside of mainstream schools. It is a different, non-traditional way of delivering education or helping students who are not succeeding in regular school settings.
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Over half of the places available
in alternative provision in these areas are at schools rated «requires improvement» or «inadequate».
The move came to light during a hearing of the parliamentary education select committee, which is holding an inquiry into the quality
of alternative provision across the country.
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Local authorities must have regard to statutory guidance
on alternative provision and on the education of children unable to attend school because of health needs.
In order to generate
alternative provision through the civic sphere, it is necessary not for the state to get out of the way, but to provide capacity and resources.
The report did note that, since 2011, there had been an improvement in the way schools are considering the use of off -
site alternative provision.
They were able to design their
own alternative provision to suit the specific needs of the pupils who they knew were being failed.
Children studying in
alternative provision favour teachers who they think teach well, according to new research, a perception which significantly contributes to in - class behaviour.
With schools becoming increasingly involved in, and responsible for, outcomes for excluded pupils, they are also instrumental in securing
appropriate alternative provision for them.
High needs funding is funding for children and young people with special educational needs or disability who need extra support at school, college or
alternative provision settings.
This includes children
in alternative provision (such as an independent school or educated at home) where the place or provision is funded by the local authority.
And during that time, you've (hopefully) built up savings, assets, and / or investments, to have
alternative provisions for a spouse or other dependent.
The Home Secretary has urged police commissioners to open
alternative provision free schools to prevent troubled children from «falling into a life of crime».
In
alternative provision areas, which in Queensland cover about 54 % of the state, (50) the RTN would have been replaced with a right to consult.
These include Solihull
Alternative Provision Academy, set up by 3 headteachers of high - performing schools in Solihull, West Midlands, which will help transform the lives of local children who have fallen out of mainstream schooling.
Auditors of the trust's January accounts last year also flagged up the fact the trust had made a loan of # 100,000 to a loss - making trading subsidiary which
provides alternative provision opportunities for pupils at risk of exclusion.
May has previously called for police and crime commissioners to
open alternative provision free schools to prevent troubled children from «falling into a life of crime», and her accession to the premiership could certainly put this idea back on the table.
Greening is also due to re-outline her commitment to a review of pupil referral units and
other alternative provision schools, a pledge made in an interview with Schools Week in September and repeated in her speech to the Conservative Party conference.
There were also more posts filled temporarily in the SEND, pupil referral unit and
alternative provision sector (which the Department for Education categorises together) at 1.5 per cent, compared with 0.8 across the state - funded sector overall.
Education campaigners have launched legal action against a government requirement for local authorities to share sensitive personal data on schoolchildren for its «
Alternative Provision Census».
«Schools don't have to report on [
private alternative provision] to local authorities or the Department for Education,» say The Difference CEO Kiran Gill and Datalab's Philip Nye in a blogpost on the issue.
Alternative provision units are therefore expanding and several new ones are in the pipeline using government funding recently announced by Justine Greening.
In line with local authorities» duty to arrange suitable education as set out above, children and young people who are in hospital or placed in other forms of
alternative provision because of their health needs should have access to education that is on a par with that of mainstream provision, including appropriate support to meet the needs of those with SEN.
Here, Sam Warnes, a former teacher and founder of EDLounge, a unique platform that gives students who struggle with mainstream education the opportunity to access learning, explains how virtual classrooms and online support systems can provide a
great alternative provision for students which adheres to government safeguarding and wellbeing guidance.
Lawyers for the group have written to the DfE to notify it of the legal challenge against the
new alternative provision census.
The majority are mainstream (which includes primary, secondary or 16 - 19), but there are also Special free schools and those that
offer Alternative Provision for students that have been excluded or are at risk of exclusion.
In response to a clear need for places, a group of headteachers in Solihull, whose 3 schools have all been judged to be «good» by Ofsted, have united to establish the
Solihull Alternative Provision Academy.
Schools Week has previously reported on the issue of pupils «disappearing» from school registers or being sent to
alternative provision by schools over fears of poor league table performance.