Re-engaging Disengaged Learners: What Alternative Provision Tells Us About SEND and Inclusion Policy by Dr Claire Baird   Why are so many children falling out of mainstream education in England? What does Alternative Provision reveal about gaps in SEND support and inclusion policy? And most importantly, what must change to ensure every learner […]

You are warmly invited to our next free SEN Policy Research Forum Seminar Re-engaging with education: The causes, risks and implications of disengagement from education, and how we might do things differently. Our speakers are: Ellie Costello, Director, Square Peg Dr Ian Thompson, Co-Principal Investigator: Excluded Lives: The Political Economies of School Exclusion, […]

A new role for alternative provision: alternative provision schools or an integrated mainstream-facing alternative provision service? Peter Gray and Beate Hellawell Alternative provision used to describe mainly independent educational providers, commissioned at key stage 4 by local authorities (LAs) or schools and had a vocational focus. The term is now used more broadly […]