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Alternative Provision / AP Consent Records
AP consent decisions, purposes and withdrawal history
Student Radar helps alternative provision staff review standing consent by pupil and purpose, record the decision actually received and retain refusals or withdrawals. This advisory record does not obtain consent, grant access or automatically permit an activity, medicine, trip or disclosure.
Staff verify the decision and apply the required procedures. Consent Records is advisory: a Yes chip does not grant access, approve a medicine or trip, publish records or contact a family.
From a specific consent question to an attributed decision
Check the purpose. Keep the decision and its history.
Read standing AP consent by purpose and pupil, record the decision actually received and preserve later refusals or withdrawals without overwriting the earlier evidence.
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Ask the right purpose question
Read the pupil, purpose, scope, effective date and review state.
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Record the actual decision
Keep giver, evidence channel, date and limits tied to one purpose.
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Check the latest answer and history
Review due decisions and record changes without treating an earlier Yes as permanent authority.
Seven questions rather than blanket permission
Seven questions rather than blanket permission
Internal photos, social media, marketing, off-site activity, medication, emergency treatment and school sharing each keep their own current answer. Unknown is not assumed consent.
Read the unknown state honestly
Read the unknown state honestly
The selected purpose shows Yes, refused, withdrawn, overdue or Not recorded. Unavailable or excluded pupils are not assigned an answer.
Keep the giver and evidence channel
Keep the giver and evidence channel
Record the verified given/refused decision, who made it, how it was received and any review date. Free-text names are not an identity verification service.
Confirm one purpose changed
Confirm one purpose changed
After save, the pupil record shows the new current answer. Other purposes retain their own missing or negative states.
See the separate answers together
See the separate answers together
The pupil-wide view groups purposes without turning a single Yes into permission for every activity or disclosure.
Find decisions that need checking
Find decisions that need checking
Review due counts are purpose decisions, so one pupil can appear more than once. Reading the old record does not renew it or create an owned task automatically.
Record a genuine withdrawal
Record a genuine withdrawal
Check who withdrew, when and why, then verify the saved negative state. A withdrawal does not automatically recall previous publications or cancel another workflow.
Retain the earlier evidence
Retain the earlier evidence
Earlier decisions show the previous giver, method, date and record attribution beneath the current withdrawal. History is bounded and says when older entries are omitted.
Keep the current purpose readable
Keep the current purpose readable
The phone preserves the pupil, negative state, recorded details and earlier-decision control before staff act on a remembered answer.
Make the next decision from the evidence
Staff verify the decision and apply the required procedures. Consent Records is advisory: a Yes chip does not grant access, approve a medicine or trip, publish records or contact a family.
An attributed decision history that retains later refusals and withdrawals
Review prompts that preserve missingness and separate specialist authority
Questions about AP Consent Records
Can we record consent for a specific pupil and purpose?
Yes. Check the standing answer for the intended purpose and record the decision actually received, rather than treating a general note as consent.
Can later refusals or withdrawals remain visible in history?
Yes. Record the changed decision through the consent workflow, preserving earlier evidence rather than overwriting it.
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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
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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.
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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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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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Ask to see one decision recorded and then withdrawn
Read an unknown consent question, save a fictional decision, inspect its upcoming review, then withdraw it and show the earlier record without treating it as current authority.