FOI request on alternative school provision

31 August 2023

Your request

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

2) How many children from your local authority area were attending alternative provision located outside your local authority area in January 2023?

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?

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?

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?

6) What provision is in place for those pupils waiting for a PRU place? Can you break this down into types:

i) No provision

ii) Mainly online tutoring,

iii) Mainly face-to-face tutoring,

iv) vocational training,

v) therapeutic support

vi) and any other types of provision? 

Our response

1. There are no Lambeth children in unregistered alternative provision
2. 23 pupils at alternative provision located outside the borough
3. No
4. None
5. N/A
6. This response cannot be broken down into the criteria requested however please note that same day referrals occur to the PRU location with capacity for placements.  One-to-one tuition is provided should a risk assessment prevent attendance there