Who is the guidance for?
Lincolnshire provides access to alternative provision. This is via Lincolnshire’s ladder of behavioural intervention or via the Emotional Based School Avoidance (EBSA) pathway or medical route. Where schools do not wish to commission Lincolnshire’s arranged alternative provision, they can commission their own arrangements with alternative provision providers.
This guidance is to support schools with both situations; commissioning alternative provision via the local authority’s provided placements or when making their own arrangements.
It is expected that this guidance will be used by all schools, academies and specialist providers when commissioning alternative education for children and young people who may be: -
- at risk of exclusion from school
- suspended from school
- at risk of disengaging from mainstream education
- unable to access school for medical reasons that cannot be met by school making reasonable adjustments
- otherwise require alternative education provision to meet their educational entitlement, for instance in line with an Education, Health and Care (EHC) Plan or is a Child in Care (CiC) with no school place