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Twelve golden keys

Twelve irresistible reasons for offering extended services, by Matthew Freeman.

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CLUSTERS OF SCHOOLS Working in small or larger clusters to offer extra-curricular and other extended services can offer economies of scale, efficiencies and benefits for more children, young people and families.

Cluster roadmap   Extended services disadvantage subsidy: cluster roadmap 2010-11. This offers cluster managers a starting point, which they can tailor and use to deliver the Disadvantage Subsidy.

Extended service sustainability - School cluster development tool    This is a tool that cluster managers can use as a basis for self-review in relation to sustainability of extended services.