Alternative provision caters for children who can't attend school for a variety of reasons, including challenging behaviour. Your board can temporarily direct pupils off-site, so they can attend another education setting to improve their behaviour. Your school can also carry out a managed move to another school, if a pupil needs a permanent change. Find out about the requirements for both options, and your safeguarding responsibilities when pupils are in AP.
Understand when and how staff in your school can use restrictive interventions, including reasonable force – and get your head around the new statutory recording and reporting requirements from 1 April 2026.
Find out how to fulfil your role in promoting good behaviour as part of a whole-school approach. Help support a positive behaviour culture, and find questions to ask to monitor behaviour in your school.
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