Please provide the following information:
1. List of Unregistered Alternative Provisions Please provide a complete list of all unregistered alternative provision settings that your authority has commissioned, arranged, or approved for use in the last 12 months from date of this request. For each provision, please include:
Name of the provider/setting
Address/location of provision
Type of provision offered (e.g., vocational training, therapeutic support, outdoor education) Whether the provision is part-time or full-time
Please the information available via the link below:
2. Pupil Numbers
Please provide the total number of children of compulsory school age who have been educated in these unregistered alternative provisions during the above period, broken down by:
Current placements (as of [current date]) Total placements made during the last 12 months Average duration of placements where available
Current placements as of 17th July: 367
Total placements made during the last 12 months: 614
Average duration of placements where available 202 days – calculated by filtering the report to show all students that have left in the current academic year, summing the total number of days (50013) and dividing this by the number of rows in the dataset (247), then rounding down to the nearest whole number.
This data is derived from the Power BI report called Student Base History which connects to the Capita ONE database. The figures are based upon the academic year from 01/09/2024 to 31/08/2025
3. Financial Information
Please provide details of the costs associated with these placements:
Total expenditure on each provider during the specified period Grand total expenditure across all unregistered alternative provisions
Please see the response to question 1.
4. Travel Cost Confirmation
Please confirm whether the financial figures provided in response to point 3 above include Transport/travel costs for pupils
No; transport costs are not included in education/placement costs. Transport holds it’s own budget and costs are based on different contracts within different arrangements.
5. Proprietor Contact Information
Where it does not contravene the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018, please provide the business email addresses for the proprietors or designated contacts for each unregistered alternative provision listed.
Disclosure of the contact information would contravene the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018 as referred to in the question. This information is therefore exempt from disclosure pursuant to section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which excludes disclosure of personal data.