Staff hit out at the current funding regime during CYP Now's Ensure the Sustainability of Your Extended Schools Provision conference in London on 31 March.
One delegate, Brigid Montgomery from South Grove Primary School in London, urged the government to move away from making schools bid for money to run extended services. "Bidding takes a lot of time and pits schools against one another, which is incredibly divisive," she said.
Another delegate said: "We need to move to a more strategic way of allocating funding. At the moment there is such a difference between areas it creates unhelpful division."
Speaking at the conference, Tom Jeffery, director-general of the children and families directorate in the Department for Children, Schools and Families, said the government remained committed to extended schools and to ensuring their sustainability.
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