Introducing Black Country Alternative Provision

We are delighted to announce that as of December 1st, we are officially launching our newest venture, Black Country Alternative Provision. The site is located in Wolverhampton and is comprised of two academies, The Kairos Academy (Alternative Provision) and The Vireo Academy (SEMH Alternative Provision and Hospital School).

We have been working with the schools formerly known collectively as Lawnswood Campus for some time now and are genuinely excited to bring the core values and high levels of performance we are renowned for nationally both to the new academies themselves and the wider community that they serve.

We are thrilled to have expanded our rapidly growing Trust into the West Midlands; Black Country Alternative Provision now becomes the eighth establishment in our trust alongside The Axis Academy (Crewe), The Cornerstone Academy (Crewe and Sandbach), The Engage Academy (Cheshire East, not yet opened), The Fermain Academy (Macclesfield), The Keystone Academy (Shrewsbury), The Link Academy (Stoke-on-Trent, not yet opened) and The Raise Academy (Widnes).

Finally, we would like to thank colleagues at the Department for Education and Wolverhampton Local Authority for their support throughout the process of the schools’ conversion, particularly Bill Hague and Nicola Dixon. We will continue to work collaboratively with the Local Authority and our close relationship with it is important to us.

We will now quickly get down to work ensuring that Black Country Alternative Provision becomes a place that truly transforms the lives of its students; as many of you will already know, we do this in our settings by being child-centred, growing authentic relationships and being adaptive and sensitive to need.