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<p>The Government is taking forward a programme of reform to alternative provision
(AP), including pupil referral units, and set out its vision for reform in the March
2018 document: 'Creating opportunity for all: our vision for alternative provision'.
Since then the Government has made significant progress by launching a £4 million
AP Innovation Fund, which is developing best practice and delivering projects to improve
outcomes for pupils in AP, by publishing two research reports into AP with examples
of good practice for providers and commissioners, and by opening 6 AP free schools
and approving two more.</p><p> </p><p>In response to the Timpson Review of school
exclusion, the Government committed to setting out plans to go further to improve
outcomes for children in AP, including how to support alternative providers to attract
and develop high-quality staff through a new AP workforce programme, and how it will
help commissioners and providers to identify and recognise good practice.</p>
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