Freedom of information response
Alternative provision
1) The total number of children from your local authority area attending alternative provision which is not registered as a school or a hospital in January 2023.
Please break this for the number of pupils attending unregistered alternative provision down into:
i) tutoring companies delivering mainly face to face tuition,
ii) Mainly online providers
iii) vocational training
iv) therapeutic support
v) Other provision, including faith schools
2) How many children from your local authority area were attending alternative provision located outside your local authority area in January 2023?
3) Have any of the state funded APs (PRUs) in your local authority area had to expand their capacity since September 2022 to meet increased demand? If so, by how many places?
4) How many children from your local authority area are currently (as of 2nd August) waiting to be taken on roll in a PRU school but don't yet have a place?
5) Of these currently waiting to be taken on roll in a PRU, how many have, in 2023, been receiving less than the 32.5 hours a week they would have otherwise been getting in a mainstream school?
6) What provision is in place for those pupils waiting for a PRU place? Can you break this down into types:
i) No provision
ii) Mainly online tutoring,
iii) Mainly face-to-face tutoring,
iv) vocational training,
v) therapeutic support
vi) and any other types of provision?
- The total number of children from your local authority area attending alternative provision which is not registered as a school or a hospital in January 2023. 0.
2) How many children from your local authority area were attending alternative provision located outside your local authority area in January 2023? 0
3) Have any of the state funded APs (PRUs) in your local authority area had to expand their capacity since September 2022 to meet increased demand? If so, by how many places?
PAN increased by 18 as at May 23 but then reduced to normal pan as at July 23
- How many children from your local authority area are currently (as of 2nd August) waiting to be taken on roll in a PRU school but don't yet have a place?
2 (1 Secondary and 1 primary) they have places but yet to start.
5) Of these currently waiting to be taken on roll in a PRU, how many have, in 2023, been receiving less than the 32.5 hours a week they would have otherwise been getting in a mainstream school? 2
6) What provision is in place for those pupils waiting for a PRU place? Can you break this down into types:
i) No provision
ii) Mainly online tutoring,
iii) Mainly face-to-face tutoring,
iv) vocational training,
v) therapeutic support
vi) and any other types of provision?