- Local authorities – the teams responsible for alternative provision and pupil referral units;
- maintained schools – governing bodies and headteachers;
- pupil referral units – management committees and teachers in charge;
- academies (including Free Schools) – not all duties are applicable to academies, and this guidance will make clear which are applicable; and
- all providers of alternative provision, including AP academies and AP Free Schools.
Table of Contents
- Alternative provision
- Who is this guidance for?
- Main legislation covering the duties and powers
- Key points
- Statutory duties and powers
- Opening and closing of pupil referral units
- Management of pupil referral units
- Directing a pupil off-site to improve behaviour
- AP academies and Free Schools
- Statutory guidance
- Commissioning good-quality alternative provision
- Referral and admissions policies
- The end of a placement and reintegration
- Further sources of information
- Statutory guidance
- Updated: 10 January 2013
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