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16 April 2026

Tag: alternative provision

Hospital schools: on the mental health crisis frontline

Taxis pull up throughout the day outside the brightly painted Magpie Centre to drop off its growing cohort of school refusers. The former youth club, which became Leicester鈥檚 fourth hospital school site 18 months ago, is designed to look as welcoming as possible to entice anxious youngsters back into classrooms. The average school refuser has […]

How former footballer Eugene Dwaah is redefining alternative provision

Catching staff from alternative provision (AP) settings smoking weed alongside the young people they were responsible for was a seminal moment for Eugene Dwaah, in what he admits has been a 鈥渟trange career鈥�. 鈥淪taff became their friends, which I suppose [they thought] made it easier to manage their behaviour, as opposed to keeping their boundaries, […]

Inside a north London PRU

Thirteen-year-old Maria* used to turn up at her pupil referral unit in the mornings already drunk on vodka. She had slipped through the cracks in the support system. Her mum had learning difficulties, and her stepdad, who had fathered her sister鈥檚 baby, was molesting her. Niki Panayiodou, a SENCO at Orchardside School in Enfield, north […]