The inspectorate published a report last week warning that too much alternative provision is unmonitored. Pupils in alternative education often spend part of their week away from school attending off-site provision. But there are currently "very limited safeguards" to assure the quality of such provision and no requirement for the majority of alternative providers to register with any official body.
Ofsted is considering how to evaluate alternative education placements for pupils as part of school inspections and wants providers to register with the Department for Education (DfE).
The DfE plans to respond to the findings in the autumn, but work is already under way on a pilot scheme set to start in September. In July, the government will announce the first group of schools and local authorities to trial a system in which schools, rather than councils, hold the budgets for alternative education.
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