Internal Alternative Provision
Re-engineered for Statutory Compliance, Seamless Inclusion, and Reintegration
Transform your Inclusion Bases and Internal Alternative Provision with the new EDClass platform.
By integrating live teaching, live timetable sessions, the matching of your curriculum, real-time pastoral support, and gold-standard live safeguarding, EDClass enables schools and MATs to effortlessly fulfil their legal obligations under the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026, KCSIE, the SEND Reform and Improvement Plan, Ofsted’s Inclusion Framework, and statutory exclusion mandates.
Enhance and Improve your Internal Alternative Provision
As an increasing number of schools and multi-academy trusts (MATs) develop their own internal alternative provision (IAP), EDClass is an essential platform that enhances and improves this provision, ensuring students can thrive.
We provide a fully safeguarded and DfE-accredited platform that offers targeted intervention and direct teaching from qualified teachers, helping students get back on track and reintegrate into mainstream classrooms.
EDClass provides instant access to a comprehensive suite of tools designed to support your IAP, helping you address capacity constraints, manage behaviour, and deliver a high-quality, continuous curriculum.
With our support, your team can focus on creating a nurturing, in-person environment while we handle the online curriculum and teaching aspects.
By integrating EDClass, you won’t need to scramble for lessons, workbooks, or worksheets. Our platform provides instant access to thousands of lessons, and our specialised teams are always on hand to help.
Our approach is flexible, allowing you to use EDClass to:
Instantly support your interventions and match any demand for IAP placements.
Help students get back on track and develop their skills with zero curriculum interruptions.
Provide rapid, stress-free flexibility for emergency, short-term, and long-term placements.
Offer core curriculum access at Key Stage 3, GCSE, and Functional Skills levels, with learning pathways that mirror your school’s existing curriculum.
Aligning Your Inclusion Base with UK Statutory Frameworks
The UK education landscape has shifted significantly. Schools and MATs face strict statutory mandates regarding attendance tracking, exclusion protocols, and inclusion base management. EDClass provides the infrastructure, data, real-time engagement, live teaching, live support, and live safeguarding required across all primary legislative frameworks:
Legislative/Guidance Framework |
Core Mandate for On-Site Inclusion Bases and IAPs |
How EDClass Solves It Inside Your Inclusion Unit |
Tangible Impact for Schools and MAT Leadership |
|---|---|---|---|
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 |
Universal Visibility and Active Engagement: Requires verified, continuous tracking of all pupils placed in internal inclusion, part-time timetables, or nurture units to ensure no child becomes "invisible." |
Automated Active-Study Logging: Records exact session engagement, mouse/interface interactions, and active learning time automatically. Triggers immediate alerts if an IAP learner disengages or drops offline. |
Eliminates manual attendance logging for inclusion leads; provides indisputable, real-time engagement data across all trust campuses. |
Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) |
Continuous Safeguarding Oversight: Demands real-time web filtering, welfare monitoring, and rapid DSL alert escalation for vulnerable pupils placed in internal isolation or nurture rooms. |
Live Safeguarding Shield (EDSafe): Monitors online activity in real time with automated web filtering. Any distress triggers or concerning searches are escalated instantly to the school’s DSL team. |
Guarantees complete safeguarding compliance within physical inclusion rooms without pulling internal staff away from room management. |
SEND Reform and Improvement Plan |
Stigma-Free, Adaptive Scaffolding: Mandates early identification, high aspirations, and differentiated teaching for neurodivergent or EHCP pupils in resourced bases. |
Private Gap-closing and Human Scaffolding: EDTeach and EDInclude+ deliver gap-closing catch-up where pupils cannot see/hear peers, removing social comparison anxiety alongside live screen-sharing and speech adaptation. |
SENCos get instant, high-aspiring differentiated pathways across Key Stages without having to write individual paper workpacks. |
Ofsted’s Inclusion Framework |
Quality Assurance and Academic Ambition: Inspectors evaluate whether IAP settings deliver broad, ambitious learning rather than punitive "dead time" or unmonitored worksheets. |
Audit-Proof Learning Archives: Every task, test, and live lesson completed in the inclusion base generates an unalterable digital mark sheet and progress profile mapped to national schemes of work. |
Provides trust executive teams with inspection-ready evidence proving IAP settings maintain high academic standards and track growth. |
Inclusion Bases and Internal Isolation (IAP) |
Low-arousal Behaviour Circuit Breakers: Requires structured, meaningful interventions that calm dysregulated pupils, address root causes, and repair behaviour for mainstream return. |
Self-Marking Diagnostic Circuit Breakers: EDInclude pushes instant, curriculum-aligned tasks that mark automatically. Pupils process behaviour reflection quietly while core learning continues uninterrupted. |
Replaces physical worksheet printing; stops interpersonal friction between pupils and staff, creating a calm, reflective environment. |
DfE Suspension and Exclusion Guidance |
Curriculum Continuity from Hour One: Demands immediate access to structured, high-quality core education during internal suspensions or short-term inclusions to avoid permanent exclusion. |
Immediate QTS-Supported Streaming (EDLive): Learners instantly drop into live, timetabled sessions in English, Maths, and Science led by live specialists with low-pressure, multi-modal chat options. |
Maintains pupil academic momentum from the first hour of isolation, fulfilling statutory suspension rules and preventing exclusion escalation. |
A Holistic Approach to Internal Alternative Provision
EDClass extends your teaching and safeguarding provision by combining an online curriculum with instant, live interaction and engagement.
Our teams of UK-qualified teachers, SEND teachers, and resilience teachers work with your staff to provide seamless support and continuity.
The EDClass Partnership
EDClass works in direct partnership with your school or Multi-Academy Trust to provide a comprehensive, fully safeguarded solution for your Internal Alternative Provision.
We provide the live teaching, live support, and live safeguarding expertise so your on-site staff can focus on the physical room management and pastoral care that makes a difference.
With the flexibility of on-demand resources, interactive diagnostic tools, rotational MAT seating, and live teaching, EDClass effectively caters to the diverse needs of all learners – delivering the necessary support, stretch, and challenge to facilitate academic progress, statutory compliance, and successful mainstream reintegration.
