Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much and what proportion of the £15 million from the Treasury’s shared outcomes fund to support a two year programme to keep pupils in alternative provision will be allocated to be spent on (a) looked after children and (b) all other children.

The alternative provision (AP) specialist taskforce programme is working in 22 serious violence hotspots in England and is designed to support pupils in AP settings most at risk of involvement in serious violence. AP specialist taskforce funding will be spent according to the identified needs of pupils in each AP setting. At a national level, of the pupils with sole or main registration in state place-funded AP in academic year 2018/19, 8.1% were looked after by a local authority at some point in the year. This compares to 0.66% of pupils in all state-funded schools.