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“I don’t wa nt to be in school a s much, bu tI want to be in school [… ] so I have som ething to fo c us on I’m not goin g out and g etting in trouble.” Boy, 14, att ending an unregistere d AP
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Unregistered Alternative Provision Every child in England is entitled to an education, but not every child is able to receive it in a mainstream school. Some children may have special educational needs which could make it difficult. to attend, or they might have been permanently excluded from school. In these situations, one option is to attend Alternative Provision (AP). There are different kinds of AP – the Children’s Commissioner is worried about ‘unregistered AP’, which is not registered with the government and does not have to follow the same set of laws as other education providers. Unregistered AP isn’t inspected for quality, which means children there are not always safe, with examples of some APs being run by people with criminal records, suspected of grooming children for gangs.
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