With a general election looking little over a year away, Tony Blair used his speech at Labour's recent spring conference in Manchester to spell out some ideas for a third term of Government.
One of the policies outlined in the speech was a radical transformation of schools and schooling. Part of this transformation was the plan to turn schools from dedicated places of education into extended schools providing both statutory and voluntary services to the whole community.
And the plan was confirmed in Gordon Brown's budget last week.
The concept of extended schools is nothing new. It was an important feature of the Every Child Matters green paper and a number of pilot schemes are already up and running around England.
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