by Catherine Brennan | Oct 3, 2025 | ALIGN, Blog
FollowFollowFollow Written By Dr Catherine Brennan Focus on Safeguarding One of the concerns often cited about non-school Alternative Provision is the vulnerability of children placed in these settings, and what’s seen as the variable quality of safeguarding...
by Catherine Brennan | Jul 17, 2025 | ALIGN, Blog
FollowFollowFollow Written By Dr Catherine Brennan Ensuring Safety: Why New AP Safeguarding Standards Matter In a recent Schools Week article, Louis Donald of the Creative Education Trust, raises concerns about safeguarding in unregistered AP. Donald points to...
by Mia Brown | Feb 27, 2025 | ALIGN, Alternative Provision, Blog, Unregistered alternative provision
FollowFollowFollow Written By Eleanor Gibson Changing the Narrative: How Media Can Support Positive Perceptions of Alternative Provision (AP) Alternative Provision (AP) schools are vital for students who require a different approach to learning. They step in where...
by Alex Gray | Mar 29, 2024 | ALIGN, Alternative Provision, Blog, Ed-tech
The digital context in small provisions In a small setting like an alternative provision, youth work organisation or independent school it’s possible to feel a bit isolated and overwhelmed in terms of support for your digital needs. Maintained provisions like schools...
by Rachel O'Connor | Feb 5, 2024 | ALIGN, Alternative Provision, Blog
Introducing the Thrive Approach…. As an onsite school alternative provision, many of our young people come to us and they have high SEMH needs that the school want some help in supporting them with. We wanted to ensure that we could support young people in the best...
by align-ed.uk | Dec 8, 2023 | ALIGN, Alternative Provision, Blog
As I sit reading yet another young person’s paperwork, I feel an increasing sense of worry about the state of our education system for some young people. So many of the student profiles we are sent are for young people whose anxiety has been a catalyst for their...
