Promoting inclusivity in extended services   This Teaching Expertise article looks in detail at methods and ideas for future improvements you can make to your extra-curricular activities.

Inclusion Matters   Warrington Borough Council has worked with over 200 childcare and leisure groups to help them to enhance their services and develop a meaningful, active inclusion ethos and focus. Their video sets out their principles and gets some ducks in a spin...

KIDS: resources to support inclusion of disabled children and young people in play activities   KIDS adopts the approach of working in partnership with parents and carers to enable disabled children and young people to develop their skills and abilities and to fulfil their potential, hopes and aspirations. These resources offer a huge range of advice and suggestions, research and information about inclusion - in particular, look at All of us - The Framework for Quality Inclusion.

The Young Carers' revolution has begun   Find out more about the Young Carers' Revolution - and if you are offering extended service to young carers, visit the Young Carers Revolution BlogSpot.

A place for culture: Developing a local culture offer for all children and young people   A new report wants more emphasis on culture in the extended school programme. The Department for Media, Culture and Sport also wants more older children encouraging their younger peers.

An anatomy of economic inequality in the UK: Report of the National Equality Panel   This document sets out evidence on the relationships between inequalities in people's economic outcomes - such as earnings, income and wealth - and their characteristics and circumstances - such as gender, age, ethnicity - and explains the ways in which 'who you are' affect the resources and opportunities available to you.

Parenting – across a cultural divide   Asylum-seeking or refugee parents often struggle to provide the support and guidance their children need to thrive in a new country. Enfield Council supports workers and volunteers from community organisations to access National Parenting Academy training places to help them deliver evidence-based programmes to families in their own languages.

New Sure Start inquiry   The Children, Schools and Families Committee will undertake an inquiry into Sure Start Children's Centres, examining whether the Children's Centres model of integrated services for under-5s and their families promotes early childhood development is an effective response to deprivation.

Digital bridges   For young people who feel their voices are not often heard, the opportunity to tell their story, or put across an alternative view of the world, can be a transformational experience.

The Cream Report   A report from the School Development Support Agency on the curriculum needs and progress of African Caribbean and Muslim children.

Learning Exchange Forum: Inclusion: challenges for extended services in a rural environment   (Started 17.06.09: This forum is still open; here is a summary of the discussion so far...)

Travellers' Times Online   Keep up with news about Traveller, Roma and Gypsy communites.

Gypsy Roma Traveller Achievement Service   Have a look at the excellent work Leeds is doing.

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Learning Exchange Forum: Inclusion: challenges for extended services in a rural environment  
(Started 17.06.09: This forum is still open.)