Collaborative Learning Manager (CLM)

Alternative Provision Software for smarter, safer learner management for better outcomes.

Managing alternative provision shouldn’t be complicated. That’s why Collaborative Learning Manager (CLM) was created – a simple, powerful online system that connects schools, alternative provision and local authorities in one secure place that supports adherence to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidelines.

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Track attendance in real time

No more phone calls to provision and logging on spreadsheets. Attendance and absences are instantly visible to schools and management teams, keeping learners safe and accountable.

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Financial Monitoring

Provides your finance teams clear oversight of payable days for Alternative Provision.

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Monitor learner progress with ease

Off-site tutors and school staff can work together seamlessly, sharing updates on targets, qualifications, assessments and supporting student achievement.

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Safeguarding

Knowing where all your off-site learners are at all times & tracking absence patterns is essential for the safeguarding of students.
CLM gives you the visibility required to keep every learner safe, supported and accounted for.

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Assure quality across providers

CLM gives you the data and insights you need to measure programme effectiveness and ensure high standards across all provision.

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Communication

Log and enhance communications between all parties involved in a learners’ provision.

Welcome to the future

With CLM, local authorities can confidently manage attendance, learner progress, and provider quality — all in one place.

What Is Alternative Provision Software?

Alternative provision software is the system schools, Multi-Academy Trusts and local authorities use to track, manage and safeguard learners who are educated away from their usual school setting – whether that’s at a registered alternative provision, a non-school AP, through EOTAS, on a managed move, or via off-site direction.

For most schools and local authorities, this used to mean phone calls, emails and spreadsheets stitched together from every provider a learner touched. That approach doesn’t just create extra admin – it creates gaps. A missed phone call can mean a day’s absence going unnoticed. A spreadsheet updated once a week can mean a safeguarding concern surfacing far too late.

CLM was built to close that gap. As dedicated alternative provision software, it brings attendance, safeguarding, learner progress and financial oversight for every off-site placement into one secure, shared platform – so schools, providers and local authorities are all looking at the same real-time picture, rather than reconciling different versions of the truth after the fact.

Who uses alternative provision software like CLM?-Local authorities, tracking attendance and outcomes across every provider commissioned in their area — often hundreds of placements at once.

Schools and MATs, directing pupils off-site while remaining responsible under Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) for their safeguarding and progress.
Commissioning and SEND teams, who need evidence that every placement – registered or non-school – is actually delivering, not just filling a place.
Virtual Schools, overseeing children in care who may be educated across several settings at once, in or out of borough.

Why alternative provision needs its own software, not a general school system

A standard school MIS is built around a single site and a single register. Alternative provision doesn’t work that way – a learner’s education might be split across a registered AP, a work-related learning placement, and home tuition, all in the same week, all needing to report back to the same responsible school. Alternative provision software like CLM is purpose-built for exactly that: multiple providers, multiple learners, one point of visibility.

That’s why, for almost 20 years, CLM has been the system local authorities and schools across the country turn to for managing alternative provision – not as an add-on to their existing systems, but as the dedicated tool for a genuinely different problem.