by Mia Brown | Apr 28, 2026 | Blog
FollowFollowFollow What It Means for Children Not on a School Roll - by Sharon Townsend As a network of non-school Alternative Provision (AP) providers, we welcome the ambition of the SEND reform to create a more inclusive, consistent and less adversarial system. The...
by Catherine Brennan | Feb 10, 2026 | Blog
FollowFollowFollow Banning mobile phones in schools - an AP perspective There is evidence which suggests that some children are distracted by mobile phones in class and that this impacts on academic outcomes. There are also studies which indicate that abusive use of...
by Mia Brown | Jan 16, 2026 | ALIGN, Blog, Unregistered alternative provision
FollowFollowFollow Written By Rachel Girling, Director of Sowing Seeds Alternative Learning Over the past few months, I’ve found myself dealing with an unexpected challenge – one that most people outside education would never think about, and one that even many...
by Catherine Brennan | Dec 9, 2025 | ALIGN, Blog
FollowFollowFollow Written By Dr Catherine Brennan Do the time limited placements support high standards? At the end of August the DfE published its much-anticipated Non-school Alternative Provision: Voluntary National Standards Framework; at the same...
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...
