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Forum topic: Developing extended services: the challenges, the pitfalls, the rewards...
Active threads:
- Feeling stumped? Looking for answers...? This thread is still active. Topics/issues addressed so far include: homework clubs and connections with supplementary schools in order to help Pakistani/Bangladeshi chiildren; finding ways to reach so-called 'hard-to-reach' groups; a request for an extended services policy; managing extended services funding; private organisations to deliver after-school maths clubs; development plans as a monitoring tool for the delivery of extended services within clusters; general monitoring and evaluation; a request for benchmark studies of community access to extended services (North Tyneside); request for a survey that Year 6 pupils could use to consult with their school's community; parental engagement in raising achievement; charging policies.
- North East Challenges
- Inclusion: challenges for extended services in a rural environment
- Sustainability: what future for extended services?
Supplementary schools
- Mainstream schools working in partnership with supplementary schools This thread is new.
Holiday Activities Pilot - 4Children & ContinYou
- Removing barriers to affordable holiday activities for children (particularly in summer) This is a new thread. So far: holiday activities programmes link-ups with family information services; reminder that there's Holiday Activites Pilot page in the Learning Exchange Library. Keep checking this forum for notices and topics related to the Holiday Activities pilot - or ask Marian Whittock a question.
Forum topic: 21st Century schools
Active threads:
- Safeguarding - Ofsted Thread still active. See post about government consultations (9 July).
- Big Society: what role in it for extended services? (This is a new thread - your views and questions are welcome.)
- Pupil and Parent Guarantees (Thread now closed.)
- Will the extended services co-ordinator become extinct? This thread has discussed ways forward for extended services. For example: clusters constituting formally as social enterprises; co-operative trust schools; the future of the role of extended service co-ordinators; integrated working; the need for a more co-ordinated approach (nationally) to developing effective partnerships in order to demonstrate the impact they can in supporting a range of agendas and initiatives (Thread now closed.)
Forum topic: Schoolgates Employment Support Initiative
Active threads:
- Schools helping parents back to work... This thread is still active. School Gates Advisers and anyone else involved in other ways of helping parents back into employment or training are welcome to post questions or share good practice and news on this thread. Find out more about the School Gates Employment Support Initiative here.
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