The document on education improvement partnerships, formerly known as foundation partnerships, comes weeks before the Government is due to publish a prospectus for extended schools, which will set out a checklist of "core services" for them (Children Now, 17-22 February).
The partnerships encourage schools to work together to offer a range of services including behaviour improvement programmes and childcare.
Stephen Twigg, minister for school standards, launched the prospectus at the annual conference of the teaching union NASUWT, but teachers said they were disappointed.
A spokeswoman for the Secondary Heads Association said: "Funding is a main incentive for schools to become involved. School budgets are tight." However Phil Street, chief executive of education charity ContinYou, said that education improvement partnerships and extended schools were inextricably linked.
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