The Extended Services Toolkit for Governors, published last week by theTraining and Development Agency for Schools, says: "Governors have anessential leadership role to play in the development of extendedservices".
In particular, governors have a role to ensure that the community'sneeds are met and, from September 2007, a duty to promote wellbeing andcommunity cohesion.
But Mick Brookes, general secretary of the National Association of HeadTeachers, said the Government was asking too much of governors.
"It is sometimes forgotten by ministers that governors are volunteers.They now have a pretty huge responsibility. Taking on extended schoolsand community cohesion is a big ask and many didn't come in with thatlevel of expectation," he said.
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