Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Barran on 20 February (HL5424), why they do not collate statistical data on the proportion of children’s education spent with unregistered providers.

The department does collect information on pupils in local authority placements who are placed with unregistered providers in the alternative provision (AP) census and, since 2022, arrangements made by schools via the schools’ census. This includes whether a child has an education, health and care (EHC) plan.

The department collects the number of sessions that children spend in their current placement during a reference week for the school and (AP) censuses, but not how much time in each location over a full academic year.