Knowledge Bank
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Audits for schools using off-site provision
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School or AP safeguarding audit
Our tool allows you to do a self-assessment of your safeguarding as a school or an AP. Download the tool here.
Get in touch if you’d like us to come and review your practice instead.
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Auditing your Pupil Premium provision
Here’s an audit we use in schools to look at Pupil Premium strategies. Use the audit with the help sheet to self-evaluate what you do and contact us if you’d like some help with it. Download the audit here.
And the help sheet here.
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What's the difference between registered and unregistered Alternative provision?
Here’s our simple visual summary of the differences between registered and unregistered alternative provision. Download it here.
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How to prepare for Ofsted as a school using AP.
Our tool allows you to do a self-assessment of how you use AP as a school. Linked to the Ofsted framework it is structured to help you prepare, identify red flags and be confident in best practice. Download the tool here.
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Setting up an internal alternative provision.
Do you need some guidance around the pitfalls and priorities in setting up an internal alternative provision? Download our handout on the subject here.
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What does the DfE say about AP?
We’re often asked for the rules around unregistered provisions and independent school registration. We’ve put together a number of links here for DfE guidance around Alternative Provision, the Independent School Standards and inspections of unregistered schools. Find the information on our recent blog post here.
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AP Quality Assurance Tool.
This is the tool we use to quality assure APs for schools and commissioners. Download a copy here.
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What are successful strategies for schools that manage to 'close the gaps'?
We looked at schools that had successfully closed the gaps for their pupil premium students. Our report looks at the strategies they used and you can read it here.