The Alternative Provision Innovation Fund will be used to test and develop projects that support children back into mainstream or special schools, as well as encouraging parental and carer involvement in the education of their child.
It will also support schemes that support young people as they move from alternative provision into training or further education at post-16.
The government has also confirmed, as reported by CYP Now earlier this week, that former children's minister Edward Timpson will lead a review into school exclusions, looking at how the use and levels of exclusions vary from school to school, focusing on those children who are more likely to be excluded.
Department for Education figures show that within alternative provision, 77 per cent of children are diagnosed with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) - compared with 14.4 per cent in all schools. Data also shows that children in need are at least 10 times more likely to be in alternative provision or pupil referral units than other children, as well as five times more likely to be excluded from school.
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