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Alternative Provision / Staff concerns review
AP staff concerns, independent routing and review
Student Radar helps authorised AP reviewers read original staff concerns, preserve uncertainty and record reasoned human assessments alongside independent routing history. It does not identify an uncertain adult automatically, decide whether harm occurred or make an external referral; staff follow the provision’s safeguarding procedures.
Staff make the assessment and any external referral through the provision’s approved procedure. Recording a review contacts nobody, and an uncertain adult description remains distinct from a verified identity.
Staff Concerns Review
From the original report to a traceable human judgement
Review the original adult report, preserve uncertainty, record a reasoned assessment and retain the independent route and manual escalation history.
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Read the original account and current route
Check the reported facts, uncertainty, procedure reference and available evidence before interpreting the report.
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Record the assessment and actual escalation decision
Select the human assessment, explain the rationale and record only the manual escalation decision or action that actually occurred.
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Check history without rewriting the original
Reopen the recorded assessment and inspect identity/routing history; approved route changes remain explicit, separate decisions.
Find the permitted report
Start with the reviewer’s permitted queue
The fictional queue identifies an unverified adult report and its reported date. It is the current reviewer’s permitted queue, not a count of every concern held by the provision.
Record the human judgement
Keep uncertainty in the human rationale
The fictional reviewer retains Unclassified and explains the need to check context. The manual escalation field distinguishes an unrecorded decision from an actual manual action; saving the assessment contacts nobody.
Return to the saved assessment
Return to what was recorded
The reopened fictional history retains the rationale, recorded time and route/policy revisions. Later interpretation remains separate from the original description and any additive identity resolution.
Inspect the independent route
Inspect the route before changing it
The fictional report retains the original approved route and procedure reference. Reassignment requires an explicit newly approved policy revision and a human reason; it does not follow silently from publishing configuration.
Review approved configuration
Keep approval and permission distinct
The native configuration view exposes the current fictional policy and a separate proposed-policy/approval workflow. Publishing approved routing does not grant directory access or missing safeguarding permissions.
A clearer independent review record
Staff make the assessment and any external referral through the provision’s approved procedure. Recording a review contacts nobody, and an uncertain adult description remains distinct from a verified identity.
Retain the rationale and actual escalation decision
Make independent routing changes explicit
Questions about Staff concerns review
Can we review the original report and its independent route together?
Yes. The restricted review workspace brings the original account, routing history and recorded human assessments into one reviewable record.
Can we preserve an unverified identity while recording an assessment?
Yes. Preserve the uncertainty and record the reasoned assessment. Identifying an adult later and route changes require their own authority; they are not automatic determinations.
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 Staff Concerns Review in the Demo School
Review the original adult report, preserve uncertainty, record a reasoned assessment and retain the independent route and manual escalation history.