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Alternative Provision / AP Accreditations

AP qualification offers and accreditation achievements

Student Radar helps alternative provision staff maintain qualification entries and offers, assign pupils and record confirmed award or unit achievement. Catalogue definitions require checking with the awarding body; an entry does not establish approval, issue a certificate or record an achievement.

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A catalogue entry is not external accreditation confirmation, a pupil assignment or an achieved award. Staff check specifications with the awarding body and record only the outcome actually confirmed.

The fictional provider catalogue entry lists one unit and an unconfirmed qualification number, outside the current offer. Fictional school example.

AP Accreditations

From the award definition to an evidenced pupil record

Maintain awarding-body and provider entries, publish the qualification offer and record actual award or unit achievement with its evidence and reporting period.

01
Check the catalogue definition
Find the exact body, award and level, review the structure and unit list, and retain unconfirmed qualification details as gaps.
02
Connect the offer and pupil assignment
Add the intended level to the provision’s offer, then record the pupil’s placement assignment with its staff, dates and expected evidence.
03
Record confirmed outcomes and inspect coverage
Record a unit or whole-award achievement separately with its date/evidence, then read the permitted-pupil report using its actual entered/achieved definitions.

Define the unit

Add units to the intended level

The fictional unit form records a code and title for an additional unit. A definition change does not record a pupil as completing it or issue a certificate.

The fictional unit form records a code and title for an additional unit. A definition change does not record a pupil as completing it or issue a certificate. Fictional school example.

Check the saved definition

Verify the catalogue change that was saved

The reopened fictional entry retains both unit titles under the same body, award and level. It remains outside the offer until the separate offer action is completed.

The reopened fictional entry retains both unit titles under the same body, award and level. It remains outside the offer until the separate offer action is completed. Fictional school example.

Publish the intended offer

Keep offer publication separate from specification confirmation

Add to your offer asks for the effective date and retains the notice that accreditation details need checking. An offered qualification still requires its pupil assignment and actual outcome records.

Add to your offer asks for the effective date and retains the notice that accreditation details need checking. An offered qualification still requires its pupil assignment and actual outcome records. Fictional school example.

Read achievement with its basis

Interpret unit-certificated achievement carefully

The fictional report has one entered pupil, one with a unit achievement, one unit and one missing-evidence record. Unit achievement contributes under its explicit basis; it does not automatically become a whole award.

A clearer accreditation record

Keep definitions and pupil achievement separate

Retain missing evidence and unconfirmed specifications

Read report counts with their award or unit basis

Questions about AP Accreditations

Can we maintain both awarding-body and provider-created entries?

Yes. The catalogue supports both, with qualification numbers, credits and specifications checked before staff rely on a definition.

Can we record actual unit or award achievement with evidence?

Yes. Record achievement against the intended pupil assignment with its evidence and reporting period. Publishing an offer or assigning a pupil does not itself record achievement.

Related help guides

See how to carry out these tasks in Student Radar, with step-by-step product help for the people using them.

Manage AP qualifications and record confirmed achievement For Authorised alternative provision qualification leads and accreditation recorders

The value of a connected school

A placement touches more than the timetable.

Provider staff use the same safeguarding and health tools as mainstream schools, and commissioning schools on Student Radar have their own side of the placement.

SafeguardingConcerns, chronology & record transfer
HealthMedical needs & medication
Commissioning schoolProvider checks & placement evidence

Alternative Provision

Context for the next step

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Relevant context, with access set by each staff member’s role and responsibilities. Staff decide the response.

Safeguarding + Alternative Provision
Raise a concern from the pupil you are working with
Provider staff can raise a concern, and authorised DSLs work it on the DSL Action Board, with the chronology and record transfer in the same place. Attendance, review and timetable views shared about a named learner leave out protected record types. Staff see summaries and only the records they are separately authorised to open, and a link does not give wider access.
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Health + Alternative Provision
Check medical needs before an off-site session
Authorised staff can check medical needs, medications and healthcare plans for the young people in the provision before a session, and record first aid when something happens.
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Commissioning school + Alternative Provision
See the placement from the commissioning school’s side
Schools that commission placements keep a provider register with due-diligence checks, placement checks before, during and after the placement, and an evidence pack they can export.
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