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Alternative Provision / AP Today
AP daily overview of sessions and placement reviews
Student Radar helps alternative provision staff check booked pupils, missing session marks, placement reviews and recent notes in Today. Follow the relevant link to the permitted source record to review the details and take the next action.
Today supports staff prioritisation. Its picture depends on role and source access; unmarked attendance, unavailable records and restricted detail never become reassuring zeros.
The provision’s day
Start the day with the work that needs a response.
Check booked pupils, missing session marks, placement reviews and recent notes, then follow the permitted route into the record that needs updating.
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Check the booked day
Read the school date, booked pupils and unmarked session places.
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Inspect the attention prompt
Check the placement date, note or marked-session attendance denominator.
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Act in the original record
Open the permitted register, placement or pupil context and confirm its own save.
A starting point with the right scope
A starting point with the right scope
Leaders, assigned staff and office colleagues see different permitted pictures. Today does not promise every pupil’s case detail or save attendance itself.
Put the date beside the responsibility
Put the date beside the responsibility
Overdue, upcoming and missing-review-date views help staff find the placement that needs a decision. Editing remains restricted to its authorised workflow.
Keep a percentage connected to the marks
Keep a percentage connected to the marks
The last-four-weeks figure uses marked booked sessions. Read included sessions and missing marks before drawing a conclusion.
Read the observation before interpreting it
Read the observation before interpreting it
Recent notes keep pupil, category and time context. Open the source when you need the full note or an authorised next step.
Keep the incomplete day visible on a phone
Keep the incomplete day visible on a phone
Scroll through the same permitted cards, with booked-pupil and unmarked-session counts still distinct.
Make the next decision from the evidence
Today supports staff prioritisation. Its picture depends on role and source access; unmarked attendance, unavailable records and restricted detail never become reassuring zeros.
Review and attendance prompts with their source context intact
A direct route to the record where staff can confirm the next action
Questions about AP Today
Can Today show which session marks still need recording?
Yes. The daily overview identifies missing session marks and links to the relevant register workflow.
Can we find placement reviews and recent notes from the same overview?
Yes. Today brings review attention and recent notes together, with links back to the original record for permitted follow-up.
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 a day checked before it is called complete
Read an incomplete register, inspect an overdue placement review and explain the next authorised action from the original record.