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Ofsted names new ‘external reference group’ members

Groups will offer ‘independent advice and challenge’ as watchdog embarks on wide-ranging reforms

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Excluded, a ‘young people-led’ documentary on school exclusions

Despite some misleading stats, Cath Murray finds a well-made documentary with simple yet powerful solutions to reducing exclusions It was a fairly standard GCSE results day morning in the Schools Week offices. I’d just finished transferring JCQ data into subject tables and was trawling Twitter for stories from comprehensive schools. People were tweeting photos from […]

Reviews

Mental health teams overlook excluded pupils

A new government initiative to support pupils’ mental health seems to be overlooking many excluded children. Research by the Anna Freud Centre and the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) shows that more than four in ten mental health “trailblazer” areas are not working with alternative provision schools, meaning some of the most vulnerable children could […]

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Two out of 27. How government is failing the inclusion test

The government has only implemented two of 27 recommendations from the Timpson review of school exclusion. Cath Murray offers suggestions for how it could improve its score One of the Timpson review recommendations was quietly implemented over the summer. I like to think the change was made to pre-empt the findings of the online “Timpson tracker” we’ve been dropping hints […]

Opinion, Sexual abuse

AP settings to get £7m post-16 transition funding, but only for one year

Alternative provision settings will given up to £750 for each year 11 pupil to aid their transition into post-16 work or training. But there are calls for the funding, totalling £7 million to cover 11,300 pupils this year, to become an annual addition to AP budgets, amid fears that excluded pupils lose support once they […]

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Vulnerable pupils falling through the cracks in AP ‘cold spots’

Data collection and tracking of how pupils are performing in alternative provision must be improved, a new report has said, warning that vulnerable learners could fall through the cracks. A new analysis published today by the Centre for Social Justice has revealed 13 local authorities where not a single excluded pupil passed their GCSE maths […]

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Warming the cold spots of alternative provision

A new report on the state of alternative provision makes for some dire reading but there’s plenty of evidence it doesn’t have to be that way, writes Cath Murray When you want to sell a story about excluded children into the mainstream media, it has to be about how dire their outcomes, or awful the […]

Opinion

Ministers want academy trusts to open their own AP

Some of England’s largest academy trusts are considering establishing their own alternative provision for excluded pupils. It comes as Lord Agnew said this was a potential solution to problems with off-rolling and high levels of exclusion among SEND pupils – urging larger trusts to ‘own the problem’ More active thinking is going on with our […]

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AP trust blames late payments for financial woes

An alternative provision trust has disclosed fears about “ongoing financial sustainability” – blaming late payments from cash-strapped local authorities. New accounts for TBAP Trust show it needed a long-term cash loan from the government this year, which increased its borrowing to £1.9million, up from £950,000 the year before. Government trouble-shooter Angela Barry has joined the […]

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