Alternative Provision (AP)

Alternative Provision (AP) usually refers to suitable full-time education that is arranged for a pupil from the sixth school day (or earlier) of a suspension or the sixth school day (or earlier) after the first day of a permanent exclusion.

In other circumstances, AP may refer to education arranged for childen and young people who are unable to attend mainstream or special schools and who are not educated at home. 

Children and young people educated in alternative provisions are among the most vulnerable. They include children with behaviour issues, those who have a short or long-term illnesses, school phobics, teenage mothers, pregnant teenagers, or pupils without a school place.

AP includes Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), AP academies and free schools, and hospital schools, as well as a variety of independent, registered, unregistered and further education settings.

APs in Northamptonshire include:

• Adventure Ways CIC, Northampton (non-DfE)
• Green Acres Farm Rural Enterprises CIC, Daventry (non-DfE)
• Liberty Learning Autism Consultancy, Denford (non-DfE)
• Northampton College, Northampton and Daventry
• Northampton Saints Foundation, Northampton (non-DfE)
• Northampton Schools Tutorial Centre, Northampton (non-DfE)
• Northampton Town FC Education Centre, Northampton (non-DfE)
• Northamptonshire Hospital and Outreach Education, Northampton
• On Track Education, Northampton
• On Track Education, Silverstone
• Progress Schools, Northampton
• Progress Schools, Thrapston
• ReFocus, Wellingborough
• Rushmere Academy, Northampton (non-DfE)
• St Andrew's College, Northampton
• The CE Academy - Chiltern House Campus, Northampton
• The CE Academy - Cromwell Campus, Northampton
• The CE Academy - Fairlawn Campus, Wellingborough
• The CE Academy - Forest Gate Campus, Corby
• The CE Academy - London Road Campus, Kettering
• The CE Academy - Oaklands Vocational, Corby
• The CE Academy - Overleys Campus, Northampton
• The CE Academy - Spring Gardens Campus, Wellingborough
• The Seeds of Change, Northampton (non-DfE)
• The Spires Academy, Northampton
• Youth Works Community College, Kettering