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Hospital schools: on the mental health crisis frontline

Taxis pull up throughout the day outside the brightly painted Magpie Centre to drop off its growing cohort of school refusers. The former youth club, which became Leicester’s fourth hospital school site 18 months ago, is designed to look as welcoming as possible to entice anxious youngsters back into classrooms. The average school refuser has […]

AP in ‘desperate need of reform’, damning Ofsted and CQC report says

‘Too many children have negative experiences in AP’, report says, with lack of oversight leading to ‘ineffective practice’

How former footballer Eugene Dwaah is redefining alternative provision

Catching staff from alternative provision (AP) settings smoking weed alongside the young people they were responsible for was a seminal moment for Eugene Dwaah, in what he admits has been a “strange career”. “Staff became their friends, which I suppose [they thought] made it easier to manage their behaviour, as opposed to keeping their boundaries, […]

The excluded children with nowhere to go

A third of councils still had waiting lists this summer for PRU places

Inside a north London PRU

Thirteen-year-old Maria* used to turn up at her pupil referral unit in the mornings already drunk on vodka. She had slipped through the cracks in the support system. Her mum had learning difficulties, and her stepdad, who had fathered her sister’s baby, was molesting her. Niki Panayiodou, a SENCO at Orchardside School in Enfield, north […]

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Hospital schools: on the mental health crisis frontline

AP in ‘desperate need of reform’, damning Ofsted and CQC report says

How former footballer Eugene Dwaah is redefining alternative provision

The excluded children with nowhere to go

Inside a north London PRU

Trusts queue to open alternative provision free schools

7 things you need to know about Ofsted’s thematic reviews of AP

Spielman: Special school crisis leaves primary pupils ‘languishing’ in AP