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Which Local Authorities is Player Ready Level-Up Approved or Listed with??
Most SEND parents know the battle they face to first get accepted for an assessment of needs, i.e. to to start the process of having an EHCP. To then getting the EHCP if agreed and then ensuring that EHCP is specific and meets needs of the Children or Young Person. Often this takes years due to backlogs and delays, sometimes going to tribunals and judicial reviews.
When a parent comes to Player Ready often exhausted and stressed, unfortunately they have to decide if they can find funding or self-fund our provision here at Player Ready Level Up!
Although we’ve taken the bold step to offer “Ap-Lite” at a reduced cost, if the Child/Young Person requires half, full or multiple days of AP this can be prohibitively expensive if the child cannot access funding.
Funding is often tied to two routes, the EHCP and as a requirement for meeting the EHCP funding may come via a School (if enrolled, even if not attending currently) or via the Local Authority (LA). If a Child or Young Person hasn’t been able to access Education for 15 days, then this can trigger Section 19 (S19) funding from the Local Authority, which basically provides some temporary emergency funding.
Schools including multi-academy trusts (MATs) have some autonomy on the types of provision they can fund from the budget they receive. The school is then responsible to ensure that provision is safe and suitable, this is normally done with paperwork checks and then a Quality Assurance visit (for the first student from that school).
Local Authorities under guidance in 2023 from the Department of Education (DfE) and OfSTED have instructed Local Authorities (LAs) to improve how they commission (buy in) services from alternative provisions, tighten up their Quality Assurance (Safety checks etc) and sometimes reduce their reliance on Alternative Provisions.
This has led to lots of Local Authorities, Unitary Authorities or Metro Councils etc implementing much more robust checks, which Player Ready fully supports. The safety and wellbeing of the young people is paramount, but also with limited funding we feel it is fair to ensure value for money as well – as long as meeting needs.
Player Ready began its journey into “official” Alternative Provision in 2023 and started the long processes of formally tendering or submitting applications with various Local Authorities. The timing was perfect as Cornwall Council our home county, opened discussions on their new framework at the end of 2023. Accepted applications in April 2024 and granted contracts in Summer 2024.
Player Ready has multiple venues, some like Portsmouth sit surrounded by several Local Authorities in Portsmouth case this is Portsmouth City Council, Hampshire County Council, West Sussex and within short driving distance Southampton City Council.
Which means to ensure we can offer provision to widest selection of young people within a 60 mile radius, submitting tenders or applications for all of the above Local Authorities.
Professionals & Parents please use the referral link button below to start your enquiry, alternatively you can email us on alternativeprovision@player-ready.co.uk .
If you are from a Local Authority Brokerage / SEND Team or school representative and would like us to apply to your framework / assured providers list, please reach out to us at: alternativeprovision@player-ready.co.uk .
This maps shows locations of our current venues. Plus some of the areas we are currently an Approved Alternative Provision (purple) with the Local Authority / Council or in the process of Quality Assurance / Tendering to achieve that status in this school year (Yellow).
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We can still work with self-funding families and schools in any area of the UK, this map is purely for Local Authority funding.
Player Ready is an approved Alternative Provision for Cornwall with Cornwall Council for our online and venue based provision located in Truro, Cornwall.
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EOTAS | EHCP | SECTION 19 | ALTERNATIVE PROVISION CORNWALL COUNTY COUNCIL
Player Ready Taunton is an approved Alternative Provision for Somerset Council for our online and venue based provision located in Taunton, Somerset.
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EOTAS | EHCP | SECTION 19 | ALTERNATIVE PROVISION SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL
Player Ready is an approved / assured Alternative Provision for Portsmouth City Council from 30th September 2024 for our Level-Up online provision digital skills provision and our in-person primary, secondary and post-16 provision based in Portsmouth.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR LISTING ON PCC WEBSITE.
EOTAS | EHCP | SECTION 19 | ALTERNATIVE PROVISION PORTSMOUTH CITY COUNCIL
Player Ready is an approved / assured Alternative Provision for Southampton City Council from September 2024 for our Level-Up online provision digital skills provision as well as using our nearby Portsmouth in-person provision and a planned future Southampton based provision for 2025.
EOTAS | EHCP | SECTION 19 | ALTERNATIVE PROVISION SOUTHAMPTON CITY COUNCIL
Player Ready is an approved Alternative Provision for Wiltshire Council for our online provision and a future venue based location in Wiltshire.
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EOTAS | EHCP | SECTION 19 | ALTERNATIVE PROVISION WILTSHIRE COUNCIL
Player Ready is an approved Alternative Provision for Swindon Borough Council for our online provision and a future venue based location in Swindon, Wiltshire.
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EOTAS | EHCP | SECTION 19 | ALTERNATIVE PROVISION | SWINDON
Player Ready is an approved / assured Alternative Provision for Buckinghamshire Council (Bucks) from 24th September 2024 for our Level-Up online provision digital skills provision and our in-person primary, secondary and post-16 provision.
Standby for plans for a future in-person provision located in Buckinghamshire!
EOTAS | EHCP | SECTION 19 | ALTERNATIVE PROVISION BUCKINGAMSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
Player Ready is an approved / assured Alternative Provision for Reading Borough Council from 7th October 2024 for our Level-Up! online provision digital skills provision.
CLICK HERE FOR OUR LISTING FOR READING BOROUGH COUNCIL
EOTAS | EHCP | SECTION 19 | ALTERNATIVE PROVISION |READING
Player Ready is an approved / assured Alternative Provision for West Berkshire Council* from 7th October 2024 for our Level-Up! online provision digital skills provision.
*West Berkshire Council uses the Reading Borough Council Approved Providers list for Alternative Provision.
EOTAS | EHCP | SECTION 19 | ALTERNATIVE PROVISION |WEST BERKSHIRE
Player Ready is an approved / assured Alternative Provision for East Sussex County Council from 16th October 2024 for our Level-Up! online provision digital skills provision.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR EAST SUSSEX LISTING.
EOTAS | EHCP | SECTION 19 | ALTERNATIVE PROVISION | EAST SUSSEX
Player Ready is an approved / assured Alternative Provision for Gloucestershire County Council from 7th October 2024 for our Level-Up! online provision digital skills provision.
EOTAS | EHCP | SECTION 19 | ALTERNATIVE PROVISION | GLOUCESTERSHIRE
Player Ready is an approved / assured Alternative Provision for Brighton & Hove City Council from 5th November 2024 for our Level-Up! online provision digital skills provision.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR LISTING ON THEIR PORTAL
EOTAS | EHCP | SECTION 19 | ALTERNATIVE PROVISION | BRIGHTON & HOVE
Player Ready is an approved / assured Alternative Provision for Hampshire County Council from 17th December 2024 for our Level-Up! online provision digital skills provision.
EOTAS | EHCP | SECTION 19 | ALTERNATIVE PROVISION | HAMPSHIRE
Player Ready is an approved / assured Alternative Provision for Oxfordshire County Council from Jan 2025.
EOTAS | EHCP | SECTION 19 | ALTERNATIVE PROVISION | OXFORDSHIRE | OCC
The below Local Authorities are currently assessing our applications or we plan to submit shortly.
We hope to add additional venues in Southampton & Basingstoke in 2024/2025 which will also serve some of these Local Authorities.
The below Local Authorities we have submitted tenders for outcomes in 2025.
These Local Authorities Cover Bath & North East Somerset Council (BANES) + Bristol City Council, Dorset, West Sussex, Surrey!
We hope to be on their Approved Alternative Provision lists before the end of Spring Term 2025.
The below are just some of the many more Local Authority Partners Player Ready is working with to bring high quality in-person and online virtual Alternative Provision including Dorset, BCP Council, Devon, Plymouth City Council, East Sussex County Council and Surrey County County.
Devon County Council currently have their process of adding new suppliers frozen something we are working on challenging, however we can still work with families direct, via third party organisations or direct with educational partners like Schools & Academies .
