1. The total number of children from your local authority area attending alternative provision which is not registered as a school or a hospital in January 2023. Please break this for the number of pupils attending unregistered alternative provision down into:
i) tutoring companies delivering mainly face to face tuition,
ii) Mainly online providers
iii) vocational training
iv) therapeutic support
v) Other provision, including faith schools
We had 11 children on the 13th January
10 had face to face tuition and 1 had therapeutic support
2 ) How many children from your local authority area were attending alternative provision located outside your local authority area in January 2023?
We have interpreted this as a child who lives outside the Devon County Council area who is studying with an alternative education provider.
We are not able to provide an absolutely accurate answer to this question. Whilst we know the registered business addresses of providers who are outside of the Devon County Council area, this may not be the location where the young person is based or studying from.
For example, we have an online only provider based in Wrexham, but the young people that attend their courses could be based anywhere. We have other online only alternative education providers that use this business model.
For our result, we are basing the information from the student’s correspondence (home) address in our Capita ONE system. We are counting the young person if they live outside the Devon County Council area.
In January 2023 there were 11 young people that met the above criteria.
3) Have any of the state funded APs (PRUs) in your local authority area had to expand their capacity since September 2022 to meet increased demand? If so, by how many places?
There have been no formal consultations on the expansion of Alternative Provision in Devon since September 22.
4) How many children from your local authority area are currently (as of 2nd August) waiting to be taken on roll in a PRU school but don’t yet have a place?
On the second of August there were 41 students waiting to be taken on roll at the PRU. 10 of these were still within the 6 school day for provision. EOTAS support packages were in place for all outside the 6th day.
5) Of these currently waiting to be taken on roll in a PRU, how many have, in 2023, been receiving less than the 32.5 hours a week they would have otherwise been getting in a mainstream school?
State provision is not due to increase to 32.5 hours until September 2024. The LA currently matches the national expectation of 25 hours a week. The LA uses a blend of providers to match as close to this as possible.
6) What provision is in place for those pupils waiting for a PRU place? Can you break this down into types:
Our provision is generally a blend of online live tuition and face to face work with alternative providers. The face to face work will be a blend of academic tuition and therapeutic approaches based on the needs of the individual