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Alternative Provision / AP Careers & Destinations
AP careers guidance and leaver destination checks
Student Radar helps alternative provision teams record guidance interviews, encounters, work experience and agreed action plans, then check leaver destinations later. Checks retain sources, dates and follow-up; an unchecked destination differs from a checked Not known result and does not prove sustained success.
Destination at closure, a later recorded check and an unchecked result are different facts. Staff retain the judgement and contact process; recorded guidance or task completion does not establish a sustained destination.
AP Careers & Destinations
From a careers conversation to a sourced destination check
Record careers interviews, encounters, work experience and agreed plans, then review leaver checks with their source, dates and outstanding follow-up.
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Record the actual guidance or encounter
Select the young person’s placement, choose the type and actual dates, then record the outcome or agreed actions in its specific fields.
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Distinguish closure from later evidence
Review the destination when the placement ended, then inspect the scheduled interval, due date and actual later check instead of assuming the closure destination continued.
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Keep follow-up owned and its missingness visible
Configure future intervals, grace and lead, add missing checks deliberately and read reached, recorded, unchecked and not-yet-due counts with their period and scope.
Record the conversation
Give the conversation its own factual record
The fictional interview names Ada’s placement and adviser, date and agreed exploration of practical courses. Saving the conversation does not apply to a course, send a referral or confirm enrolment.
Verify the placement record
Return to the outcome that was saved
The reopened fictional guidance record retains the interview outcome and recorder. Reasoned withdrawal remains a deliberate way to correct an unsuitable record without silently rewriting its history.
Review what is still unchecked
Keep missed and missing checks separate from destinations
The fictional leaver has a missed three-month check and later intervals not yet scheduled. College at closure is not presented as a verified current destination; Add these checks is a separate action.
Record the source
Record how the destination is known
The native check form asks where the leaver is now, the information source and Date checked. A recorded Not known result is different from an unchecked point, and the form does not contact anyone.
Set future follow-up
Apply future arrangements without rewriting scheduled dates
Intervals, grace days and follow-up lead define new closure follow-up. Existing checks keep their dates; an older leaver’s missing interval is added explicitly rather than assumed to appear retrospectively.
A clearer careers and destination history
Destination at closure, a later recorded check and an unchecked result are different facts. Staff retain the judgement and contact process; recorded guidance or task completion does not establish a sustained destination.
Separate checked destinations from outstanding checks
Keep follow-up dates and ownership explicit
Questions about AP Careers & Destinations
Can we retain interviews and work experience with a placement?
Yes. Careers & Destinations connects guidance interviews, encounters, work experience and agreed action plans with the young person’s placement.
Can we record later destination checks and outstanding follow-up?
Yes. Record what each later check established with its source and date, then review missing intervals and owned follow-up separately from the destination recorded at closure.
Related help guides
See how to carry out these tasks in Student Radar, with step-by-step product help for the people using them.
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
Student RadarFollow a connection to see what it makes possible
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.
Explore safeguardingHealth + 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.
Explore healthCommissioning 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.
Explore commissioning school
Ask to see AP Careers & Destinations in the Demo School
Record careers interviews, encounters, work experience and agreed plans, then review leaver checks with their source, dates and outstanding follow-up.