EXTENDED SCHOOLS:

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• EXTENDED SCHOOLS
• SUPPORTING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, FAMILIES
  AND COMMUNITIES

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EVERY CHILD MATTERS CHANGE FOR CHILDREN

• Schools as the most likely bases for the
  co-location of services
• Makes sense to locate services where children
  and young people spend much of their time

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WHY EXTENDED SCHOOLS ?

• Raising standards
• Community involvement
• Integrated health and social care
• learning culture and positive role models
• Parental involvement

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ALL SCHOOLS TO OFFER EXTENDED SERVICES OVER TIME
DfES FIVE YEAR STRATEGY

• The core offer for primary schools
• 8am to 6pm childcare offer
• Study support
• Parenting support, including family learning
• Specialised support services

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ALL SCHOOLS TO OFFER EXTENDED SERVICES OVER TIME
DfES FIVE YEAR STRATEGY

• The core offer for secondary schools
• Study Support
• Community use of school facilities
• Family learning including parenting classes

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SCHOOL AGE CHILDCARE OFFER IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS

• By 2010 every parent offered the guarantee of
  affordable childcare from 8am-6pm all year.
• At least half of all parents by 2008.
• Delivered through partnership working

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SCHOOL AGE CHILDCARE OFFER IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

• By 2010 all schools providing full range of
  activities / things for young people to do all
  year round
• By 2008 at least a third of schools
• Stimulating things to do
• Offer that fits local needs

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ACHIEVING THE VISION

• For local authorities / childrens trusts
• For schools
• For governors

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EXPERTISE AND SUPPORT

• DfES guidance (Oct 2002)
• The Extended Schools Support Service
• (TESSS)
• Extended schools prospectus
• Funding

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FUNDING SOURCES SUPPORTING EXTENDED SCHOOLS

• Full service extended schools
• Local co-ordination and management
• Childcare co-ordination
• Community cohesion
• Raising attainment through local communities
  (NRU)
• Big Lottery Fund (formerly NOF)

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FUNDING

• New flexibility
• All schools to develop extended services over
  time
• Full service extended school model

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EXTENDED SCHOOLS IN LONDON (1)

• Full service extended schools Barking and
  Dagenham, Barnet, Brent, Bromley, Camden, Croydon
  (2), Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney,
  Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow,
  Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and
  Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham,
  Redbridge, Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Waltham
  Forest, Wandsworth Westminster
• London Challenge Hackney, Haringey, Islington,
  Lambeth, Southwark (2 each)

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EXTENDED SCHOOLS IN LONDON (2)

• Community Cohesion Funding Barnet, Brent,
  Ealing, Hammersmith and Fulham, Harrow,
  Hillingdon, Hounslow, Redbridge, Southwark, Tower
  Hamlets
• Raising attainment through local communities
  (NRU) Croydon, Enfield, Hillingdon, Lambeth,
• Big Lottery Fund Barking and Dagenham, Bexley,
  Brent, Ealing, Greenwich, Harrow, Havering,
  Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kingston-upon-Thames,
  Merton, Redbridge, Richmond-upon-Thames, Sutton,
  Waltham Forest.

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EMERGING ISSUES

• the need for a co-ordinator
• difficulty in engaging with other agencies
• Governance what arrangements to put in place
• Evaluation
• technical issues

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WHATS NEXT?

• Move to Sure Start Unit, maintaining links with
  Schools Directorate
• Evaluation of full service extended schools
• Responding to the changes following Every Child
  Matters and the Five Year Strategy
• Post SR 2004
• Building Schools for the Future

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FUTURE ISSUES

• Childrens Trusts funding and commissioning
• Co-location or integration
• Schools working in clusters
• Governance integrated childrens services
• Multi-agency inspections

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COLLABORATION

• Inter agency collaboration was a fundamental
  element of the majority of pathfinder projects.
  It was seen as the only logical way to ensure
• Strategic planning
• Effective delivery
• Increased resources including staffing, funding
  and equipment
• Sustainability and
• The regeneration of disadvantaged communities.