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Welcome to the Learning Exchange Library

JigsawTake a minute to explore the links on the left. Every week, we add material and links to the Learning Exchange library pages, creating a useful databank that can inform and improve your practice and knowledge.

We always welcome your help in keeping things up to date and relevant, so if you think anything is missing - or you find a broken link or a redundant item - please let us know.

Library contents: overview

Key policies and research   Documents and links to information about key education policy documents and links to research and useful advice.

Extra-curricular activities   Documents and links to information about extra-curricular good practice; Play; Intergenerational learning/adult learning; Personalised learning; Holiday activities; Early years ; Marketing and communicating extra-curricular activities

Extended services: embedding principles   Documents and links to information about Leadership in extended services; Extended services: embedding the principles; Signposting, Swift and easy access to services; Parent support and family learning; School improvement and self-evaluation; Governors' roles in extended services; Governors' Agenda: back issues of this useful magazine; Workforce reform; Specialist schools

Impact: monitoring and evaluation   Impact and evaluation tools and resources

Data: collection and use   Useful resources about using and managing data

Commissioning   Support for effective commissioning 

Addressing disadvantage   Documents and links to information about Disadvantage: narrowing the gap; Child poverty; Reaching 'hard-to-reach' groups; Rural issues

Attendance and behaviour   Resources and information related to improving attendance and behaviour through extra-curricular and extended services. 

Raising attainment   Resources and information related to raising attainment through extra-curricular and extended services.

Quality   Resources and information related to raising and assuring the quality of extra-curricular activities and extended services.

Early intervention   Documents and links related to early intervention theory, practice and research.

Inclusion   Documents, websites and useful resources related to inclusion of marginalised groups of young people and others that are so-called 'hard-to-reach'.

Communities: cohesion   This page lists documents and links about buildin more cohesion in communities, including information on how schools contribute to this.

Participation, engagement   Resources and links to advice on student participation and engagement.

Safeguarding   Documents and links to information about safeguarding, health and safety issues   

Partnership working   Documents and links to information about effective partnership working in different ways: Clusters of schools; Multi-agency working; Working with the business and voluntary sectors; Locality working; working with partners in a 'Total Place' context;

Sustainability   Documents, links and advice about strategies for sustainable extra-curricular and extended services

Sport, PE, health and well-being   Documents, links and advice about sport, PE, health and well-being

SEN children and young people   Documents, links and advice about developing extra-curricular activities and extended services that include and suit SEN children and young people

Young people (14 to 19) and NEETs   Documents, links and advice about working with young people and young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEETs)

Looked-after children   Documents, links and advice about developing extra-curricular activities and extended services that include and suit looked-after children and young people

Supplementary schools   Links to useful information and advice for mainstreams schools that want to work more closely with the supplementary schools in their areas.

Community Focused schools in Wales   Community Focused Schools is the name for extended schools in Wales. Links to useful documents and advice at the ContinYou Cymru

Members' documents   This page is where the Learning Exchange lists documents that have been contributed by members.