When mainstream school is no longer meeting a child’s needs, the next steps are often difficult to manage clearly.
- Managing SEND support.
- Arranging alternative provision placements.
- Sharing information across organisations.
- Tracking funding and decisions.
This process is often fragmented, time-consuming, and difficult to oversee.
WayPaths provides a structured way to manage SEND support, alternative provision, and placement funding in one system.
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Where the process becomes difficult
Information is held across schools, local authorities, and providers. There is rarely a single, reliable view of the child.
Placement decisions are often based on availability. Not always on a full understanding of need.
Funding can take time to approve. And is difficult to track once in place.
If a placement is not successful, the process can begin again. Across the system, people are working to support children.
However, the way information is shared and decisions are managed makes this more difficult than it should be.
What is changing? Expectations for SEND and alternative provision are increasing.
Schools, trusts, and local authorities are being asked to demonstrate:
- what support is in place
- how placement decisions are made
- how funding is allocated and used
- what outcomes are being achieved
This requires clearer processes, better visibility, and more consistent data.
Many existing systems were not designed to provide this level of oversight.
Built for real processes
WayPaths is a SEND and alternative provision management platform that brings together support, placements, funding, and outcomes in one shared system.
Used by schools, local authorities, and providers, it is designed around real workflows and aligned to where the system is going.
This allows you to:
- maintain a single, structured record that follows the child
- access a shared view of support across organisations
- make placement decisions based on clearer information
- track funding from request through to payment
- reduce duplication of admin and repeated data collection
How it works
Digital Passport
A structured SEND record that follows the child across schools and provision settings
Matching and Placement
A clearer way to identify and compare alternative provision based on need
Financial Tracking
Real-time visibility of SEND and inclusion funding
Compliance Vault
APs upload their policies and answer their process questions once. LAs and MATs can verify compliance processes instantly, with reminders for updates or reviews built in.
Specialist Portal
A shared space for specialist input and coordination
Secure Access
Role-based access for schools, local authorities, and providers
What this changes in practice
For schools and trusts
A clearer process for referrals and support, without rebuilding information each time
For local authorities
Improved oversight of SEND placements, decisions, and funding across the area
For providers
More complete information at referral and clearer commissioning processes
For all organisations
Reduced administrative burden and more consistent decision-making
Why this matters
Managing SEND support and alternative provision involves multiple organisations working together.
WayPaths supports this by providing:
clearer, more consistent placement decisions
reduced duplication of information and checks
a shared view of support across settings
visibility of funding from request through to payment
A clearer way to move forward
Improving SEND support and alternative provision depends on better coordination, clearer information, and shared visibility across organisations.
WayPaths brings these elements into a single, structured system.
So that support is easier to manage, decisions are better informed, and funding is visible from start to finish.
If this reflects where your organisation is heading, you can be part of it early.
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