You fund the placement. You should be able to watch it working.
Hapio gives you a live portal for the alternative provision placements you commission, so progress, attendance and quality are something you can see, not something you wait for.
A placement can carry a cost of fifteen to twenty five thousand a year. That deserves more than a termly summary.
You are asked to trust a placement you cannot see.
You place a young person, the funding leaves, and what comes back is a summary written long after the fact. If the placement is drifting, you find out late. If it is going brilliantly, you have nothing solid to point to when it comes up for renewal.
That is not a reflection on the provision. It is a reflection on the tools they have been given.
What you can see, whenever you look.
Progress, live
Where the young person started, where they are now, their reintegration stage, and the next step their mentor is working on.
Attendance, as it happens
Sessions delivered, not sessions promised, with patterns visible early enough to do something about them.
Reports you can act on
A monthly report built from recorded evidence, reviewed by a person and signed off by a leader before it reaches you.
Every view logged
Access is role based and each view is recorded by name and time, on both sides.
And an independent read on the quality of the provision itself.
Hapio Assure is an independent quality assurance framework for alternative provision, delivered by Provisions Plus. It assesses a provision against a consistent standard, with evidence behind every judgement and an improvement plan the provision works through.
So the question stops being whether a provision looks credible, and becomes what the assessment actually found.
What an assessment covers
- Safeguarding practice and the culture behind it
- Quality of teaching, mentoring and the offer
- Attendance, engagement and outcomes
- Leadership, governance and compliance
- An improvement plan with dates against it
See the placements you fund, working.
A calm 30 minute walkthrough of the commissioner portal, with your own placements in mind.
And when it works for one placement, make it the standard. Ask the providers you commission to run on Hapio, and every placement you fund becomes this visible.
