Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 38148

Alternative Education: Finance

Tabled: 13 March 2025
Answered: 22 March 2025
Named Day

Question

Nadia Whittome

LabourNottingham East

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of creating a new funding stream for students who have been educated in registered alternative provision to continue in that setting after t

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
The statutory duty on local authorities to provide alternative provision applies to children of compulsory school age. If any alternative provision schools would like to offer post-16 placements, they should approach the department to discuss this. Funded...

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