• To effectively identify, track and trace all school aged children who are lost from education or found not to be placed on a school roll.

• To track these children into mainstream school or place in an appropriate educational placement, where possible, within 20 school days of first notification.
  
  
• To ensure that all lost pupils are traced and connected to appropriate support networks.
  
  
• To establish and maintain effective links and protocols with other key stakeholders and local authorities concerned with the protection and support of lost children.
  
  
• To identify and fund appropriate provision otherwise than in mainstream schools and to link with these providers on behalf of individual pupils and their parents or carers.
  
  
• To provide a coordination and information sharing network for these alternative provisions.
  
  
• To evaluate the quality of such provision, in light of OFSTED guidance, and to list all approved providers within an alternative provision directory.

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