What if all local authority councils supported alternative provision?
In England, 8,000 children are permanently excluded from school every year. In Scotland, cases of exclusion have fallen from high of 44,794 in 2006/07 to 8,323 in 2020/21 …
42 permanent exclusions in schools, every day …
Yesterday, I hung up my school bag for the 29th year working in schools. I had the privilege of working with a small group of educators in an independent alternative provision (AP) in Greater Manchester. The organisation is a trauma-informed provision for students, which asks ‘what has happened NOT what is wrong.’
