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1 ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION PROVIDERS DYNAMIC purchasing system (DPS) catalogue Sept 2016 For use by: South Gloucestershire Council and Schools For queries relating to this catalogue please contact: Sue Jackson Commissioning Officer 01454 865562 V1 Overview This South Gloucestershire catalogue of recognised ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION providers has been developed to help schools and the council choose organisations and packages best suited to children and young people across all key stages and up to the age of 25.

2 The catalogue has been established via a Dynamic purchasing system (DPS) under the light touch regime. Together, they provide a framework for schools and the council to support meeting the needs of children and young people with additional social and emotional needs who: are permanently excluded from school are excluded from school on a fixed term basis are at risk of disengaging from mainstream EDUCATION require additional support during a negotiated transfer between mainstream schools or otherwise require ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION provision to meet their educational entitlement, for instance in line with an EDUCATION , Health and Care Plan.

3 The benefits of using the catalogue and DPS: The framework promotes early intervention and preventative approaches. The catalogue provides a single source of information about ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION providers who deliver high quality, effective, efficient and economical services for young people whose needs are diverse and wide ranging. The providers have demonstrated their expertise and capacity to provide ALTERNATIVE provision services for students at risk of exclusion, or who need additional support or intervention beyond the school All the providers included have undergone a rigorous quality assurance process, ensuring a minimum standard has been met in areas including company stability, business insurances, policies and procedures, business continuity, experience.

4 Technical and professional ability and safeguarding The catalogue and DPS provide a consistent measure of quality and clear and consistent terms and conditions for all providers, in line with statutory requirements - reducing the need for providers to be individually quality assessed by each purchaser. Schools and the council can make full use of the available opportunities to ensure that all pupils are in an EDUCATION setting that best suits them. This in turn will help to improve the children and young people s attendance and progress in learning so that all students have the chance to achieve their potential and achieve the highest standard of EDUCATION possible.

5 The framework will strengthen and improve access to ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION packages that are flexible, responsive and tailored to the child or young person s needs. This will improve engagement with the market of ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION providers - supporting innovation, sustainability of providers and improved provision. The catalogue will be reviewed annually. Further procurement processes can take place based on the development of the market and the needs of the Local Authority to include new providers in the catalogue .

6 Providers who fail to maintain standards in the meantime will be removed. School Statutory Obligations The DPS does not remove or affect any of the statutory obligations and duties upon schools in relation to the provision of EDUCATION or the exclusion of children and young people from school. Further, it does not affect agreed practice locally. Any child or young person placed by a school in ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION Provision, either full or part-time, remains on the roll of that school and responsibility for delivering the full-time statutory EDUCATION offer and all other duties in respect of that child remains with the school.

7 The commissioning school remains responsible for monitoring the quality of the ALTERNATIVE Provision and tracking the progress of individual children and young people and confirming that the provision given is of good quality, value for money and meets the pupil s needs. Schools have the option to use other providers who have not been assessed and approved through the Local Authority process, but must ensure that they have a robust process in place for quality assuring those providers as well as appropriate contracting arrangements.

8 Concerns about any Provider must be highlighted and acted upon, with the Local Authority being informed as appropriate. purchasing from the DPS Providers are listed alphabetically within the catalogue . Purchasers can use the matrix below to identify providers that offer the type of provision sought and this then links to the provider page where further details can be obtained. The purchaser should then contact the Provider directly to discuss further and make arrangements as per current protocols.

9 List of Provision (Alphabetical order) Name of Provider KS1 KS2 KS3 KS4 KS5 Full Time Part Time Full-time revolving Part time revolving Academy21 Apricot Learning Breakthrough Bristol Futures Academy Creative Youth Network Equine Assisted Qualifications EDUCATION 1st Empire Fighting Chance Equal EDUCATION Ltd Face Freshstart GroundEd Horseworld Trust

10 Learning Partnership West Nisai Rocksteady Simpact Southern Brooks Tute Wey EDUCATION Wheels Project Young Bristol Details of the different types of provision Services are offered across key stage levels and delivering one or more of the four types of programme below: 1) Full-time ALTERNATIVE Provision (typically ten sessions a week for a whole academic year) 2) Part-time ALTERNATIVE Provision (typically one or more sessions a week for a whole academic year) Both full-time and part-time ALTERNATIVE provision are designed to provide ALTERNATIVE EDUCATION , securing appropriate learning experiences and qualifications for individual children and young people to ensure progression at post 16 into EDUCATION , employment and training.