Children Educated Offsite 2016-2019 - Find a freedom of information request

1. I would be grateful if you could provide the latest available figures covering the period from 2016 until now; for the number of school age children in your authority recorded as Code B (educated offsite). Please exclude children on vocational courses and on work experience. I would like the figures broken down by school year please.

2. Please breakdown by:

i. Primary aged children, years 1 – 6 

ii. secondary aged children, years 7 - 11

3. Further could you specify if any schools (of all types) are not required to inform the authority when they categorise a child as educated offsite?

4. Have Ofsted issued any formal warnings to providers of Alternative Provision responsible for children funded by the authority. If, yes, please name the providers?

5. Please provide a list of AP providers known to the authority.

6. Could you please inform me as to whether it is the authority or the schools that fund alternative provision for children designated as Code B? If the authority pays for alternative provision does the school cease to receive funding for that child?

1. We do not hold this information - There is no legal obligation to notify the LA when categorising a child as educated offsite, the LA funded placements to AP are coded as D – Dual Registered.

2. We do not hold this information - There is no legal obligation to notify the LA when categorising a child as educated offsite, the LA funded placements to AP are coded as D – Dual Registered.

3. There is no legal obligation to notify the LA when categorising a child as educated offsite

4. LCC are not aware of any formal warnings issued by Ofsted to our commissioned Alternative Providers

5.

• Build a Future (Independent School commissioned by the LA)
• Springwell (Alternative Academy, turned Free School in April 19 commissioned by the LA)
• SESN
• Castles Education
• Hill Holt Wood
• First Steps (closed September 18)
• Good Apple
• Acorn (Independent Alternative School)
• Bridge House (Independent Alternative School)
• Alternative Curriculum Education (ACE)
• Black Barn
• Alternative providers Education

6. All placements funded by the LA are categorised as Code D – Dual Registered, LA funds the placements, and schools pay a contribution but continue to receive their AWPU.