Objectives Schools on the Isles of Scilly, which is located 28 miles off the Cornish coast, are free from many of the problems that their mainland counterparts have to confront. There hasn't been an unplanned teenage pregnancy in 16 years and truancy is almost non-existent.
But geographical isolation looms large. While the 1,700 people on the largest island of St Mary's have access to most core services, the 400 residents of the four other islands - Tresco, St Martin's, Bryher and St Agnes - are more cut off. Scilly's council decided to use its £250,000 annual extended schools' budget to ensure more equality of access, so that a child living on outlying islands did not suffer disadvantage.
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