In a report into education for pupils who have been excluded or are at risk of exclusion, the watchdog warned that too much alternative provision goes unmonitored.
The inspectorate found that in many cases school staff do little to check on children’s progress once they start to attend alternative education, either part-time or full-time.
Pupils in alternative education often spend some of their week away from school attending off-site provision. But there are currently "very limited safeguards" to ensure such provision is of good quality.
Meanwhile, there is no requirement for the majority of alternative education providers to register with any official body and no consistent arrangements in place to evaluate their quality.
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