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Alternative Provision

Offering you a
whole solution
to SEND, SEMH & Early Intervention

At Next Steps we believe in giving every student an equal opportunity in education by reducing all and any barriers to learning

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Trusted by schools across the South West

  • Plymouth City Council
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How we're supporting you

We know supporting a diverse range of student needs and provisions can be stressful. That's why our service offers so much more than the hour you might book with our tutors. With Next Steps, you also get:

  • A completely managed service from point of referral
  • All arrangements, bookings & updates with families taken care of
  • Safeguarding, lesson reports and attendance monitored
  • Our professional input into reviews, TAFs, CINs, etc

How our tutors are supporting students

Our tutors and mentors support students across the South West with academic tuition, mentoring and coaching

  • In students' homes
  • Within school settings
  • In local community locations
  • At our dedicated tuition centre
  • In 1:1 online sessions
  • In our specialised SEMH Online School
Easy steps 1 (4)

Our team jumps into action as soon as your referral form hits our inbox. 

We’ll contact you, the family and tutors and start creating a package.

Easy steps 2 (1)

We flex around you. Choose from core subjects, mentoring or something else.

We’ll complete an Relational Support Plan with the student and work with tutors to develop a curriculum.

Easy steps 3 (3)

You’ll have access to our easy to use portal where you’ll find student calendars, lesson reports and progress updates. 

Need weekly attendance data? No problem!

Easy steps 4 (3)

We’ll remind you to pick a convenient time for a half-termly review.

On the agenda: progress, attendance, student & family thoughts and updates from school.

Easy steps 5 (3)

When the time is right, our mentors and tutors will support your student back into the setting, making reintegration a smooth and successful process.

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Packages to Suit Every Need

There's no one typical package; each student gets a provision that they need and what they are ready for. Over time, progress and commitment are reviewed and tuition hours or sessions back in school are added. Our goal is always to place a student back into a setting where they can flourish in education.

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And Qualified Educators

We know that students who work with qualified, experienced educators make great progress. We believe that our vulnerable and disadvantaged students deserve the best chances. 

That's why:

  • Our tutors all have QTS, safeguarding training, DBS checks and references
  • We have a Designated Safeguarding Lead, Liz
  • We offer regular CPD to our tutors and mentors

"It's such a simple concept - to educate from an individual's starting point. It enables a child not otherwise accessing education to succeed in ways they never thought possible."

Dr. Liz Fancourt Director, Next Steps Education

What our Families Say

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Our Commitments to You

At Next Steps we aim to lighten the load of giving your vulnerable and disadvantaged students the additional support they need:

Whether you want us to fit into your scheme of work or deliver a bespoke curriculum finely tuned to the child’s needs, our team of tutors plan, deliver and assess each student’s learning.

Safeguarding is in every step we take, from following KCSIE guidance, to robust policies, through to safeguarding reports from tutors after every session. Our tutors are all Safeguarding trained and our systems are built to trigger immediate action over any concerns.

Being responsive means that we can get an alternative provision package in place quickly and yet still deliver consistency to your students. We know that alternative provision is often there to support students back into mainstream education, so we ask for just 72 hours notice at the end of a contract.

Our tutors keep you updated with a report every lesson and our systems are set up to make sure this gets in front of whoever needs to see it. Over time, each student builds up an learning profile that can support their next steps in education, be that new school admission, EHCP or progress towards exams.


We do the data

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Transitions back to school

Josie joined us as a Year 8 pupil who had been finding school tricky and was recently excluded. When we met Josie she was struggling across core subjects, but also struggling with managing her behaviour. Our team put in place tuition for Maths, English, Science but we started with mentoring.

Through her mentoring sessions, Josie rapidly improved in her engagement, learning to verbalise her needs and describe her feelings about a task. 

The 1:1 tuition sessions gave Josie a chance to get to grips with the topics she’d been finding hard at school and she started making rapid progress with her individual support.

Equipped with new confidence, she’s transitioned into a new school and is engaging with all subjects well.

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Year 11 successes

Last summer, our Year 11s all reached success in their own ways.

Next Steps Education coordinated with schools to invigilate GCSE exams at home for some of our SEMH students, whilst others were supported by mentors to visit school exam rooms to familiarise themselves before the exams started.

Our students have gone on to a variety of FE courses: Music Tech, Childminding, Animal Care, Plumbing, Computer Engineering and A Levels. 

Some, like our trainee chef, have gone on to employment and others, like our future plasterer, have taken up an apprenticeship.

We're so proud that our students have bright futures ahead of them and have overcome some of the challenges they faced when they started with us.

 

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Tuition at home

Next Steps take referrals from schools and local authorities for students with Section 19s, Annex Rs and Annex Gs as well as working with SEND teams on EOTAS packages.

On completing our Relational Learning Plan with our student Millie, we found out that she had a real and passionate interest in World War 1.

Her tutor adapted her primary curriculum to incorporate this interest and worked with her daily in her home delivering Year 6 objectives in a highly adapted and personal curriculum.

Millie was engaged in her learning throughout her time with us. For example, she learned to use Morse Code linked to reading, grammar and maths and created a lap-book of World War 1. Millie also learned co-regulation techniques, to understand her emotions and to articulate her needs.

 

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We are happy to answer your queries and questions about our service. Please pick a time that suits you to have a call back from one of our team.

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