Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 19 January 2018 to Question 123172, what the locations are of the 10 AP free schools, AP academies and Pupil Referral Units that cater for early years.

As at 24 January 2018, the department’s ‘Get information about schools’ website, available at: https://www.get-information-schools.service.gov.uk/ shows there are 42 pupil referral units (PRUs), alternative provision (AP) free schools and AP academies that offer provision for early years pupils aged four and under. The data containing the local authority names for these PRUs, AP free schools and academies can found in the attached annex A.

The department does not collect data on the number of referrals to alternative provision. However, as at January 2015, 2016 and 2017, six, seven and 10 children respectively aged three and four were placed in PRUs, AP academies and AP free schools.