An offer families can understand before choosing a time
Session descriptions, dated capacity, notice and the saved policy explain the intended booking arrangement.
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Alternative Provision / AP Tuition
AP tuition sessions, parent bookings and refunds
Student Radar helps enabled alternative provisions define tuition sessions, publish dated availability and review parent bookings, places and payments together. Staff manage cancellations and refunds through separate permissions; Tuition remains separate from placement invoices in AP Billing.
Authorised staff decide publication, cancellations and refunds. A browser checkout return is not payment confirmation; cancelling never refunds money, and refunding never releases a place.
Check context, record the decision, review the result
Run tuition from a clear offer to a checked booking and payment decision.
Define private or group session types, create dated availability, prepare the parent booking page and review each booking’s place, payment and refund position together.
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Create dated availability from the session type
The actual date, weekday and time controls sit beside upcoming booked and available sessions.
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Define the offer before publishing dates
Private and group types describe the length, price, capacity and place of tuition.
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Check exactly what a type change will affect
The actual editor separates the offer’s description, price, length and delivery mode.
AP Tuition
Create dated availability from the session type
The actual date, weekday and time controls sit beside upcoming booked and available sessions.
AP Tuition
Define the offer before publishing dates
Private and group types describe the length, price, capacity and place of tuition.
AP Tuition
Check exactly what a type change will affect
The actual editor separates the offer’s description, price, length and delivery mode.
AP Tuition
Read the payment environment before acting
The fictional connected account is in test mode; connection and recorded totals are separate from live readiness.
AP Tuition
Return to the saved parent-facing introduction
The fictional text is retained with publication still off, before any invitation to book.
AP Tuition
Prepare the same booking page on a phone
The section picker and parent-facing settings remain available at phone width.
A clear record for the responsible team
Authorised staff decide publication, cancellations and refunds. A browser checkout return is not payment confirmation; cancelling never refunds money, and refunding never releases a place.
A place and payment record that can be read separately
Confirmed, held and cancelled places remain distinct from paid, refunded and exceptional payment states.
An explicit next decision when a booking changes
Staff can check cancellation consequences and remaining refundable amounts before choosing the appropriate action.
Questions about AP Tuition
Can we offer private and group tuition sessions for parent booking?
Yes. Define session types, create dated availability and prepare the parent booking page, subject to Tuition being enabled and the relevant access.
Can we review cancellations and refunds against the booking?
Yes. The workflow supports booking or session cancellation and reviewed refund decisions, retaining the booking’s place and payment position.
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
Agree the next step with the responsible staff
Define private or group session types, create dated availability, prepare the parent booking page and review each booking’s place, payment and refund position together. Authorised staff decide publication, cancellations and refunds. A browser checkout return is not payment confirmation; cancelling never refunds money, and refunding never releases a place.