Junior education minister Lord Filkin acknowledged the question mark hanging over the future funding of extended schools at a conference in London last week.
"Extended schools will be at the heart of provision for children and young people," he said. "You can't develop a major initiative like this through stop-start funding, but we can't tell you yet how we're going to address that."
Lord Filkin said the Government would be investing 100m in the roll-out of extended schools in 2005-06 to establish at least 240 full extended schools by 2006. No money has yet been announced to cover the period after March 2006.
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