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Alternative Provision / AP Quality Mark

AP quality standards mapping and evidence gaps

Student Radar helps alternative provision teams maintain the standards they work towards, link evidence already held and record explicit gaps for review. Evidenced is the provision’s recorded completeness decision, not an external award, accreditation judgement or proof of pupil impact.

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Staff decide completeness against their actual framework. Evidenced is an internal recorded state, not an external award, accreditation judgement or proof of impact.

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Alternative provision

Keep the next decision connected to its context

Maintain the standards your provision works towards, link evidence already held and keep explicit gaps available for review.

  1. 01

    Make the review decision explicit

    Name what the standard covers, select its completeness and check the actual reviewed date. A new document link does not decide that the standard is evidenced.

  2. 02

    Point to the evidence already held

    Link a compliance duty, permitted document, workspace or evidence held elsewhere. Open the original where a source link is available; each source retains its access boundary.

  3. 03

    Describe what still needs attention

    Record the concrete gap against the standard, arrange the owned work and resolve the gap only after reviewing what changed and the supporting evidence.

AP Quality Mark

Make the review decision explicit

Name what the standard covers, select its completeness and check the actual reviewed date. A new document link does not decide that the standard is evidenced.

  • Actual framework wording
  • Human completeness choice
  • Reviewed date checked
Fictional example.

AP Quality Mark

Point to the evidence already held

Link a compliance duty, permitted document, workspace or evidence held elsewhere. Open the original where a source link is available; each source retains its access boundary.

  • Named source type
  • Purpose explained in the note
  • Original evidence retained
Fictional example.

AP Quality Mark

Describe what still needs attention

Record the concrete gap against the standard, arrange the owned work and resolve the gap only after reviewing what changed and the supporting evidence.

  • Gap attached to its standard
  • Work ownership decided separately
  • Resolution distinct from accreditation
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Make the record practical to use

Staff decide completeness against their actual framework. Evidenced is an internal recorded state, not an external award, accreditation judgement or proof of impact.

A recognisable standard

Match the map’s wording to the framework in use.

A reviewable evidence trail

Keep relationships to the original sources.

A visible remaining gap

Separate what is missing from a completeness claim.

Questions about AP Quality Mark

Can we link existing evidence to a quality standard?

Yes. Maintain the standard and connect evidence already held, retaining the source rather than creating another unsupported account.

Can we record and later resolve a gap in the standards map?

Yes. Gaps remain explicit for staff review and resolution. The map’s progress and Evidenced state do not confer an external award.

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.

Alternative Provision

Context for the next step

Student Radar

Follow 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.

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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Ask to see AP Quality Mark in the Demo School

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