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Forum topic: Developing extended services: the challenges, the pitfalls, the rewards...

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  • 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.

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Forum topic: Schoolgates Employment Support Initiative

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  • 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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