The House of Commons Education Select Committee has announced one of the first inquiries of the new parliament will be on Alternative Provision (AP) (external link) for pupils who do not attend mainstream schools for reasons such as school exclusion, behaviour issues, or illness.
The inquiry will look at:
- routes into alternative provision;
- the quality of teaching in alternative provision;
- educational outcomes and destinations of pupils;
- safety, accommodation and provision of resources for pupils;
- in-school alternatives to alternative provision;
- regulation of independent providers.
Any individual or organisation is free to submit written evidence to the inquiry and details of how to do so are on the parliament website (external link)