CYP Now - Analysis: Extended schools - A turning point for the debate?

While the idea of extended schools still faces scepticism from some head teachers, the Department for Education and Skills is collecting evidence of the beneficial effect they are having on grades and children's behaviour. Report by David Singleton.

Head teachers who are still opposed to extended schools should watchout: the Government is preparing to take them on.

Children's minister Beverley Hughes revealed her hand in an exclusiveinterview with Children Now last week (Children Now, 7-13 June). TheGovernment will not be significantly changing the policy nor will it berebranding the initiative. Instead, it is looking for successfulextended schools that can shout from the rooftops about the benefits ofextended services.

Hughes is convinced that such schools are the best way in which to winover sceptical head teachers. "I think the best ambassadors are theschools themselves that have already moved forward because they canspeak very powerfully about the benefits," she says.

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