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Non-school alternative providers, including farms, outdoor education, vocational settings, tutoring, therapeutic provision, do vital work with young people the mainstream cannot reach. The new voluntary national standards give these providers a way to evidence their quality and safety, and reassure the schools that commission them.
We help non-school AP providers meet the standards, so commissioners can place children with confidence.
What Is Our Non-School AP Standards Support?
It is support to help non-school (unregistered) alternative providers meet the government’s voluntary national standards for non-school AP. We help you evidence your safeguarding, quality, and governance against the standards, and present yourself credibly to the schools and local authorities that commission you.
The aim is to help genuinely good providers demonstrate their quality, and win the trust and referrals that follow.
Who Is Our Non-School AP Standards Support For?
It is for non-school alternative providers, including farms, outdoor and adventure education, vocational and creative provision, tutoring, and therapeutic settings, that want to meet the voluntary national standards and reassure commissioners. It suits providers who do good work and want to prove it.
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What Does Our Non-School AP Standards Support Include?
- Support to evidence your provision against the voluntary national standards
- A review of your safeguarding and safer recruitment
- Guidance on the AP registration threshold and staying within it
- Help with governance, policies, and paperwork
- Support demonstrating quality and impact to commissioners
- Advice on presenting credibly to schools and local authorities
- A clear plan to close any gaps
How Does Our Non-School AP Standards Support Help Your School, Academy, Trust, or Setting?
1
Meet the standards
The voluntary national standards are how you evidence quality and safety. We help you meet them and show that you do.
2
Reassure commissioners
Schools must quality-assure the AP they use. Meeting the standards makes it easy for them to place children with you.
3
Get safeguarding right
Safeguarding is the first thing commissioners check. We help you get your arrangements genuinely robust, not just documented.
4
Stay within the rules
The registration threshold matters. We help you understand it and stay on the right side, so you operate lawfully.
5
Win referrals
Providers that can evidence quality win trust and referrals. We help you present yourself credibly to those who commission.
6
Sort the paperwork
Policies and governance are often the weak point. We help you get them in order without drowning in bureaucracy.
7
Prove your impact
You already change lives. We help you evidence that impact in a way commissioners recognise and value.
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How Our Non-School AP Standards Support Works
- 1We talk through your provision and who commissions you.
- 2We review your safeguarding, quality, and governance.
- 3We map you against the voluntary national standards.
- 4We help you close gaps and evidence your quality.
- 5We help you present credibly to schools and local authorities.
What You Get at the End
- Your provision evidenced against the voluntary standards
- Robust, demonstrable safeguarding arrangements
- Governance and paperwork in order
- A credible offer that wins commissioner confidence
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Key Features of Our Service
Standards-aligned
We work to the voluntary national standards for non-school AP.
Provider-friendly
We help good providers prove their quality without red tape swamping them.
Commissioner-focused
We help you present in a way schools and LAs trust.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only in education and understand both the commissioner’s duties and the non-school provider’s reality. Our support helps genuinely good farms, outdoor, vocational, and therapeutic providers meet the voluntary national standards and evidence their quality — so commissioners place children with confidence, and good providers get the referrals they deserve.
Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to us about your provision and the standards.
- We help you evidence your quality and safeguarding.
- Contact us today to meet the voluntary national standards.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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