A tailored, curriculum-aligned inclusion provision for Lionheart — built on three years of delivery across your schools, and modelled on the trust that did it first: the White Horse Federation.
Purple Ruler isn't a new name to Lionheart. We're already the established online inclusion partner to nine of your ten schools — and to The Pioneers' Centre, the trust's dedicated alternative-provision centre — delivering across the full provision ladder, from full-time Academy places to school-timetabled Blueprint lessons, 1:1 Compass tutoring and Distinction exam-prep groups.
Lionheart is one of only a handful of trusts using all four Purple Ruler categories (A·B·C·D) trust-wide — a depth of partnership most trusts never reach.
169 positive student-feedback responses against just 26 issues — and the issues logged are almost entirely connectivity, not teaching. Enjoyment runs near-universal across every school sampled.
From Humphrey Perkins to Martin High to Sir Jonathan North, we reach the students hardest to engage — long-term absentees, managed moves, SEND and SEMH cohorts.
Entrenchment = how deeply each category is woven into day-to-day provision. Distinction and Blueprint are now structural to how Lionheart supports exam cohorts.
A measure of trust earned over time — not a pilot, but sustained provision your schools have come back to term after term.
| School | Provision categories | Live enrolments | Lessons delivered |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Pioneers' Centre · trust AP centre | ABD | live | live |
| Humphrey Perkins | ABCD | 27 | 1,413 |
| The Castle Rock School | ABD | 17 | 1,319 |
| Judgemeadow College | CD | 6 | 1,200 |
| The Martin High School | ABCD | 73 | 981 |
| Beauchamp College | BD | 18 | 651 |
| Sir Jonathan North GC | ACD | 10 | 575 |
| Beauchamp City Sixth Form | D | 4 | 499 |
| The Cedars Academy | ABD | 5 | 204 |
| The Newbridge School | BCD | 12 | 21 |
| Mercia Academy | joining | — | — |
Live partnership across nine Lionheart schools plus The Pioneers' Centre, the trust's dedicated alternative-provision centre and our deepest-engaged site (full Academy→Blueprint→Distinction ladder) — with Mercia Academy currently joining for a reintegration-focused pathway. Pioneers' Centre provision is invoiced at centre level, so it is not reflected in the per-school enrolment/lesson figures above.
Today every Lionheart school commissions Purple Ruler independently: separate enrolments, per-course billing, school-by-school scheduling. It works — but it leaves efficiency, consistency and curriculum alignment on the table. A unified trust-wide model captures all three.
*Cost-efficiency benchmark drawn from the White Horse Federation trust-wide model (see below). Exact savings modelled to Lionheart's volumes at contracting.
White Horse built a single trust-wide alternative provision with Purple Ruler — pooling seats across its schools into one inclusion hub. The result is the model this proposal puts in front of Lionheart.
"The purpose of this work is to reach the students nobody else could." — Tim James, SEND & Inclusion Lead, White Horse Federation
| Measure | Lionheart (today) | White Horse |
|---|---|---|
| Schools partnered | 9 | 4 |
| Categories in use | 4 (A·B·C·D) | 3 (A·B·D) |
| Live enrolments | 114 | 40 |
| Lessons delivered to date | ~6,863 | — |
| Trust-wide unified provision? | Not yet ← | ✓ Live |
Lionheart has the deeper footprint already. The single missing piece is the unifying agreement that turns nine arrangements into one provision.
A unified provision doesn't mean one-size-fits-all. It means a single, coherent ladder your schools can move students along — from full-time placement back towards the classroom.
Full online alternative provision, groups ≤6, nationwide. For students who can't currently attend at all.
Live lessons on your scheme & timetable, ≤6/group — one flat group rate regardless of headcount.
1:1 SEND tutoring for the students who need a single trusted adult and a bespoke pace.
Small-group stretch & exam preparation for high attainers and Y11 cohorts.
Indicative pricing; final trust-wide rates modelled to Lionheart's pooled volumes. Enhanced mental-health support available as an add-on. Phased reintegration (online → blended → classroom) underpins every category.
Purple Ruler meets all the minimum standards for online education across every section of its Ofsted monitoring (Oct 2025).
"A significant strength of Purple Ruler is the support staff provide for pupils with SEND… each pupil receives carefully tailored, individualised teaching."— Ofsted, October 2025
"Communication with those who commission places is a strength. Consequently, commissioners feel well-informed." A full commissioning & compliance pack is available on request.
For the cohorts we serve — long-term absence, SEMH, managed moves — the first win isn't attendance, it's re-engagement. Lionheart's own student feedback tells that story.
Of 195 feedback responses across the trust, the 26 issues logged were overwhelmingly technical (connectivity), not teaching quality — and are actively resolved.
A 45-minute working session with trust leadership to agree scope: which schools, which categories, pooled-seat volumes and the curriculum-alignment requirements.
We build a trust-wide pricing model against your actual volumes and show the saving versus today's nine separate arrangements.
Migrate existing cohorts onto the unified agreement with zero disruption, and extend the same provision to schools newer to the partnership — including a reintegration pathway for Mercia Academy.
A single trust-wide inclusion hub with consistent safeguarding, quality and termly reporting to the trust — the White Horse standard, tailored to Lionheart.
Let's spend 45 minutes shaping what a unified, cost-efficient, curriculum-aligned Lionheart provision looks like.
Book a working sessionRoss Clements · Purple Ruler · ross.c@purpleruler.com
+44 1227 913300 (UK) · +1 302 597 9251 (US)