by Alex Gray | Jul 17, 2024 | Alternative Provision, Unregistered alternative provision
In May 2024 the Department for Education published its analysis of the call for evidence completed in September 2022. While it contains lots of interesting analysis of commissioning arrangements at the local authority level, there are also some key take-aways for...
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...
by Alex Gray | Dec 1, 2023 | ALIGN, Alternative Provision, AP Curriculum, Blog, Ofsted
“Why register with Ofsted as an Alternative Provision? The SEND and AP Improvement Plan (March 2023) suggests that Ofsted will likely become more directly involved with monitoring “un-registered” provision in the future. The question of whether to register with the...
by Catherine Brennan | Nov 17, 2023 | ALIGN, Alternative Provision, Blog
I missed this Schools Week article when it came out at the beginning of October. I’m always uncomfortable with tabloid approaches to serious problems, and this is no exception. The largely unattributed quotes in this piece about practice in some ‘unregistered’ APs...
by Mark Wrangles | Nov 10, 2023 | ALIGN, Alternative Provision, Blog
We set up Align to be a resource, support, and voice to those working in alternative provision, particularly those in AP’s which have to work outside the Ofsted framework. I’ve worked in education for over 20 years, I’ve always worked, across mainstream and...
