Resources

Helpful documents for those working in and with unregistered alternative provisions.

ALIGN Resources

Summary of Official Submitted Response to SEND Reforms (May 2026)

Official Statement in Response to Reforms and White Paper (March 2026)

DFE Event Notes & Summary (Dec 2025)

DFE Event Powerpoint Slides (Dec 2025)

Official Statement in Response to DFE Proposals (Nov 2025)

ALIGN event response to DFE proposals (Sept 2025

ALIGN DFE meeting summary (Jan 2025)

[Draft of] ALIGN Guidance for Unregistered AP (Dec 2024)

Partnership Resources

How Kloodle Bridges the Gap for Non-School Alternative Provision (August 2026)

Reports & publications

Behavioural and social
communication interventions
for … a rapid
evidence review
(July 2026)

Keeping Children Safe In Education Guidelines (September 2025)

   Non-School AP – Voluntary National   Standards (August 2025)

Consultation Response (August 2025)

What Works: Four Tenets of Successful Internal AP (June 2025)

Arranging Alternative Provision Guidelines (Feb 2025)

Public Accounts Report on Children with SEND (Jan 2025)

Children with complex needs who are deprived of liberty (Nov 2024)

Analysis of Call for Evidence on Use of Unregistered AP (May 2024)

An Alternative Route: Post 16 Support.... AP (May 2024)

Reasonable Force, restraint and restrictive practices (April 2024)

Children Missing Education: The Untold Story (Sept 2024)

Youth Justice Board Strategy 2024-2027 (April 2024)

Outcomes for Pupils who Experience Multiple Suspensions EPI Report (March 2024)

Children's Commissioner's Report (Feb 2024)

SEND & AP Improvement Plan (2023)

Thematic Review of Alternative Provision in Local Areas (2024)

Consultation on Unregistered AP /Draft Framework (May 2024)

Joseph Rowntree Report Report on Destitution (2023)

Social Mobility Report from the Sutton Trust (2023)

IntegratEd Toolkit & Report (2022)

Government Guidance Docs

Every Child Achieving and thriving (February 2026)

Alternative Provision Statutory Guidance (February 2025)

Pupil Behaviour Survey (April 2024)

Creating a School Behaviour Culture Audit (April 2024)

Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforces (March 2024)

Online School Accreditation Scheme (2024)

ITT For SEND & AP (May 2023)

Keeping Children Safe in Education (2023)

Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023)

Policy Statement on Un-Registered Schools (2019)

Independent School Standards (2019)

Unregistered Independent Schools & Out of School Settings (2018)

Investigate Research into Alternative Provision (2018)

Children Missing from Education (2016)

Safeguarding-specific resources

Race, Racism & Safegaurding Children (March 2025)

NSPCC: Understanding and responding to sibling sexual harm and abuse (Nov 2024)

What role does social media play in violence affecting young people? (Nov 2024)

Helpful links

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Register an Independent School Checklist

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Independent School Inspection Process

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Guide to Starting an Alternative Provision

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Excluded Lives Research Project Home Page

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What the research shows us about good quality AP

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AP Research Network Website

Video, podcast & webinar content

Alternative route: what's the picture in AP? (Ofsted Talks)

The AP Market & Progress Tracking in AP

What is Alternative Provision & Who is it For?

Bullying, Victimisation & ACES seminar

Court Rulings & Prosecutions

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DFE VS TALBI & BERNHARDT (2018)