Archive: extended services policy and guidance documents
Twelve irresistible reasons for offering extended services, by Matthew Freeman.
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The Play Strategy A large consultation with children, young people and parents led to this 2008 strategy for England, which emphasises creating more child-friendly communities.
Every Child Matters Content from the Every Child Matters (ECM) site is now availabe in the children and young people section of the Department for Education website.
Extended schools: A greater role in the community A very informative Guardian supplement from 2007 in association with the TDA. Includes FAQs, interviews and ideas on empowering the community through extended services.
White Paper: 21st Century Schools: a world-class education for every child (DCSF) 448kb: 21st Century Schools is the government’s flagship consultation on how make schooling fit for the 21st century a reality for every child.
Key Points in the 21st Century Schools White Paper Simon Bradley and Corinne Cappell have summarised the key points, as they see them, from the white paper Your child, your schools, our future: building a 21st century schools system.
Children’s plan: executive summary (DCSF) 161kb: The Children’s Plan aims to make England the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up. This is the executive summary of that plan.
Children’s plan (DCSF) 637kb: The children’s plan is the Government’s strategy for making England the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up. This is the complete document.
Every Child Matters: Change for Children is a new approach to the well-being of children and young people from birth to age 19. Aims and outcomes (Every Child Matters website):
Extended schools - building on experience (DCSF) 682kb: This document reflects on the experience gained of extended schools so far; it uses a number of case studies to show how these services can contribute to schools standards.
Extended schools: London economics research (DCSF) 505kb: This DCSF-commissioned report seeks to establish a baseline methodology to estimate the impact of the extended school services.
Extended schools – survey of schools, parents and pupils (Ipsos-MORI) 446kb: This is a quantitative study, commissioned by the DCSF, of perceptions and usage of extended services in schools.
Gaining ground strategy (DCSF) 771kb: This document outlines the government’s strategy for improving progress in ‘coasting’ secondary schools.
New opportunities: fair chances for the future (Her Majesty’s Government) 1.17mb: The previous government’s White Paper on social mobility.
Promoting excellence for all (Department for Children, Schools and Families) 1.29mb: Promoting excellence for all outlines the government’s school improvement strategy, which aims to support schools to raise their standards.
Special schools in the East Midlands delivering the full core offer of extended services:
An examination of best practice (Final report, March 2007) This report covers 4Children's examination of nine special schools in the East Midlands in early 2007. It includes a number of case studies of how special schools are delivering extended services as well as recommendations on best practice.
The role of SENCOs in Every Child Matters Rita Cheminais looks at how to establish effective partnerships, and describes a new ECM self-evaluation tool that will help to strengthen partnership-working.
Evaluation of the full service extended schools project: end of first year report (RB680) dated September 2005
Extended Services Evaluation: Reaching Disadvantaged Groups and Individuals - Thematic Review (Research Report DCSF-RR196, January 2010) by Colleen Cummings, Alan Dyson, Lisa Jones, Karen Laing, Karen Scott & Liz Todd
Evaluation of the full service extended schools initiative: complete final report: (Manchester University; Newcastle University); full copy of the DCSF-commissioned research evaluating the effectiveness of the extended schools programme.