Progress Education operates 12 independent alternative provision schools across the UK, supporting more than 400 young people each year, helping them achieve their potential and take positive steps towards further education or employment with training.
We see first-hand the benefits a supportive, high quality alternative provision education affords our young people and we have recently launched a campaign calling for government to ensure all children and young people can access quality alternative education if they require it.
We believe a major step forward would be for government to ensure all schools in the sector are registered.
In recent years, there's been a huge rise in the number of unregistered independent schools. In 2019, an Ofsted report identified around 6,000 children who were attending an unregulated provision that year.
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