Knowledge Bank

  • Our comparison chart for unregistered and registered alternative provisions

    Audits for schools using off-site provision

    We’ve put together an audit to allow you to check what you do around supporting any of your pupils in off-site provision. Download the audit here.

    Download a help sheet to support the audit here.

    If you want school or trust support around this then contact us here.

  • School or AP safeguarding audit

    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.

  • Audit for pupil premium strategies

    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.

  • Our comparison chart for unregistered and registered alternative provisions

    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.

  • School guide to Ofsted prep around AP

    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.

  • Internal alternative provisions

    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.

  • Information about local authorities.

    Are you looking to find out some of the key data around AP for your local authority? This spreadsheet allows you to sort by LA for exclusion rate, suspension rate, deprivation, no of schools, pupil attainment and a whole lot of other measures. Download the spreadsheet here.

  • AP Quality Assurance

    AP Quality Assurance Tool.

    This is the tool we use to quality assure APs for schools and commissioners. Download a copy here.

  • Article in schools week about closing the gaps for pupil premium students.

    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.