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Risk Assessments
Risk Assessments scores each hazard by likelihood and severity, and only goes live once a leader signs it off.
Part of the Risk, Compliance and SCR workflow
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Alternative Provision / Risk, Compliance and SCR
See which duties are evidenced, which checks are missing and which reviews are due.
Keep live, signed-off risk assessments for each young person, work through the provider duties that apply in England with evidence and owners, and keep the Single Central Record of staff and volunteer checks in the same place.
Checklists and prompts show what needs attention. Ratings, sign-off and registration decisions stay with your leaders.
Ready for scrutiny
Safety, duties and staff checks, kept current
Owners and review dates send reminders to My Actions and the calendar, so the records do not go stale between inspections.
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Assess the risk
Score each hazard by likelihood and severity from one to five. A leader sets the overall rating and signs the assessment off to make it live.
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Evidence the duties
Work through 23 duties in six sections, each tagged as a legal duty, statutory guidance or guidance, and as applying to registered settings, unregistered settings or both.
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Check the team
Track 15 pre-appointment checks for staff and volunteers, with expiring checks flagged 60 days ahead.
Every capability has a purpose
Inside Risk, Compliance and SCR
Each capability solves a distinct problem for pupils and staff. Explore the part your team needs and the work it supports.
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Compliance Checklist
Compliance Checklist lists the provider duties that apply in England, each with a status, linked evidence, an owner and a review date.
Part of the Risk, Compliance and SCR workflow
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Single Central Record
Single Central Record tracks pre-appointment checks for staff and volunteers, flags expiring checks early and adds new staff with their checks still to do.
Part of the Risk, Compliance and SCR workflow
Risk assessments
Live only when a leader signs it off
A draft goes live only when a leader signs it off, and editing a live assessment turns it back into a draft. Reviews default to every six weeks, and a coverage bar shows how many young people have a live assessment.
- Hazard scores of 15 and above shown as High, 8 to 14 as Medium
- An overall rating from Low to Very high, set by the leader
- Overdue reviews easy to spot
Single Central Record
Checks recorded, gaps flagged
Checks include identity, right to work, enhanced DBS, barred list, the DBS Update Service, teaching prohibition, section 128, overseas checks, qualifications, references, childcare disqualification and medical fitness, plus safeguarding, safer recruitment and first aid training. Staff added in Staff and access appear on the record with their checks still to do.
- Six types of person, volunteers included
- Expiring checks flagged 60 days ahead
- Checks recorded by your team, with no automatic DBS lookup
Duties and registration
Duties drawn from the guidance you work to
The compliance checklist draws on sources including KCSIE 2026, the DfE guidance on arranging alternative provision and the DfE voluntary national standards for non-school alternative provision. When the pupils on roll suggest the provision may be offering full-time education, Student Radar prompts leaders to review whether it may need to register as an independent school.
A prompt, not a decision
The registration review is a prompt for your leaders to consider, and the checklist covers England only.
The records others will ask to see
Risk, duties and staff checks each have an owner and a review date, so your team can find gaps early.
Safety signed off
Pupil risk assessments go live only after a leader signs them off.
Duties with evidence
Each provider duty has a status, linked evidence and an owner.
Checks that do not lapse unnoticed
Missing and expiring checks are flagged before they become a finding.
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. Safeguarding records are never shared through commissioner 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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See your duties, risks and checks in one place
Ask us to walk through the compliance checklist, a risk assessment and the Single Central Record.