Event Summary
The Department for Education (DfE) recently published updated alternative provision (AP) guidance.
With new policies, statutory expectations, and a stronger focus on inclusion and reintegration, Westminster Insight’s Alternative Provision Conference provides critical updates for local authorities, PRUs, MATs, schools, and colleges arranging alternative provision for students who cannot attend mainstream school.
Our expert speakers will share recent updates to education policy; including the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill; and the next steps for SEND reform and inclusion in education. Make the best use of available resources and improve outcomes for pupils in AP.
With a focus on multi-year strategic planning and funding streams, we will address next steps to ensure there is sufficient, quality alternative provision in each area. We will share practical solutions to monitor placements (including the use of unregistered provision), safeguard pupils, and improve outcomes in AP.
We will examine reintegration policies back into mainstream education or to a sustained post-16 destination. How can we ensure that AP is a short-term intervention, and not a destination?
Spotlighting key challenges and practical solutions, hear how you can build an engaging, flexible, and academic AP curriculum, with a strong focus on English, literacy and mathematics skills and qualifications. You will learn how other AP settings are measuring a child’s progress while in AP.
You will learn from best practice PRUs on how they address challenges such as complex behaviour, poor attendance, and mental health, to boost confidence and a sense of belonging. We will cover plans and processes for delivering early intervention outreach work in mainstream schools. You will hear how you can work with wider multi-agency partners such as SEND, health, and children’s services, to meet wider physical, personal, social and emotional needs.
Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with peers and experts, and shape a brighter future for children and young people in alternative provision.
Key Points
- Understanding the impact of education policies such as the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, and new DfE guidance on Arranging Alternative Provision
- Funding strategies to sustain AP
- Multi-year strategic planning and processes for placing students
- Quality assurance measures for AP providers, strengthening oversight and monitoring unregistered provision
- Identifying and meeting the complex needs of students in AP, nurturing inclusivity and safeguarding vulnerable students
- Providing tailored support meeting the needs of students with SEND
- Creating an engaging, flexible, and academic curriculum in AP
- Meeting a child’s physical, personal, social and emotional needs alongside their educational needs and instilling confidence and self-belief in students
- Offering remote education for those who cannot physically attend school
- Managing reintegration to mainstream education and sustainable post-16 destinations
- Fostering collaboration among schools, families, commissioners, and wider multi-agency partners
Venue details
In-person: This conference will take place at the Chamber Space, Elliot House, Deansgate, Manchester. Attend this full-day event to network, build relationships, and learn from your peers.
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