PRU meaning in Community ?

Answer: What is Pupil Referral Unit mean?

In the UK, a Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) (previously known as Pupil Re-integration Unit by some Local Education Authorities) is an alternative education provision which is specifically organised to provide education for children who are not able to attend school and may not otherwise receive suitable education. This could be because they have a short- or long-term illness, have been excluded, or are a new starter waiting for a mainstream school place.

Each LEA has a duty under section 19 of the Education Act 1996 to provide suitable education for children of compulsory school age who cannot attend school. Placing pupils in PRUs is just one of the ways in which local authorities can ensure that they can comply with this duty. PRUs are a mixture of public units and privately managed companies.

There are currently over 421 PRUs in England. Between 2002 and 2003, 17,523 pupils attended PRUs at some point. Although PRUs do not have to provide a full National Curriculum, they should offer a basic curriculum which includes English, mathematics, the sciences, PSHE and ICT.

A PRU is treated the same as any other type of school, subject to the same inspections from Ofsted. Since September 2010, some PRUs are referred to as "Short Stay Schools", although the government still broadly refer to them as PRUs or Alternative Provision (APs).

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Full Form	Category
Phenomenon Research Unit	Academic & Science
Pay Research Unit	Academic & Science
Prome	Airport Code
Prudential	Business
Perseus Mining Limited	Business
Perseus Mining Ltd	Business
Productivity Resources Unlimited	Business
Prudential Financial, Inc.	Business
Pupil Referral Unit	Community
Port Replacement Unit	Computing
Performance Review Unit	General
Programmable Realtime Unit	General
Photographic Reconnaissance Unit	General
Peripheral Resistance Units	General
Paramedic Response Unit	General
Pressure Regulator Ultra	General
Power Representation Unity	General
Plant Raise Understand	General
Preferred Return Unit	General
Photo Recon Unit	General
Psychos R Us	General
Patient Referral Unit	General
Personnel Reception Unit	General
P2Y12 Reaction Units	General
Programmable Runtime Unit	General
Plant Raise and Understand	General
Professional Responsibility Unit	General
Propylene Recovery Unit	General
Partnership for Reform in Ukraine	Governmental
Police Resources Unit	Governmental
PARLU	Indian Railway Station
Peripheral Resistance Unit	Medical
physicians’ response unit	Medical
Police Resources Unit (!) of the Home Office	Medical
Physician Response Unit	Medical
Pararescue Unit	Military and Defence
Primary Reporting Unit	Military and Defence
Prome, Burma ( Myanmar)	Regional
Potomac Rugby Union	Sports
Pseudo-random Upstream	Telecommunication