Analysis: Education - Reforms to aid pupils on the edge

27 May 2008 3 mins read Education

The government's white paper on pupil referral units and other forms of alternative educational provision sets out some big changes. But, as Ben Cook discovers, the proposals have proved controversial to some professionals in the children's sector.

Alternative educational provision is set to change. Last week's white paper on these services, which include pupil referral units (PRUs), signals a renewed push to improve the education of the 70,000 pupils who end up out of school for behavioural or medical reasons.

The white paper, Back on Track, aims to modernise alternative provision. It recommends schools make more use of it as a way of turning around the lives of pupils at risk of permanent exclusion. It also sees alternative provision as a way of preventing pupils who have already been expelled from school from getting into more serious trouble later in life.

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