Is there an alternative to Alternative Provision?

Name: Is there an alternative to Alternative Provision?
Start: 2025-11-11T18:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-11T20:00:00+00:00
Location: PRSC

Schedule

Tue Nov 11 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

PRSC | Bristol, EN

This is part of a series of monthly events on radical education.
Mainstream schools are increasingly failing to meet many children's needs. The landscape of alternative education is vast; places at special schools are expensive and hard to come by. In the meantime, 58,000 children in England with nowhere else to go are placed into Alternative Provision (AP) this is a number that is increasing year on year. Whilst APs can serve as a necessary safety net for some, how do class, race and cultural biases around behaviour and diagnoses determine which children end up outside of mainstream education and attending an AP (alternative provision)? With the increasing privatisation of public spaces who are the parties with capital interests in the expansion of APs profiting from the exclusion of societies’ most vulnerable children?
Join us on Tuesday 11th November at 6:30 in the PRSC to discuss.
Recommended reading:
https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/index.php/OutputFile/11628276
Tickets available on Headfirst: https://hdfst.uk/e139142
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