Kids' City, which provides out-of-school activities for children agedfour- to 19-years-old, is worried that it is increasingly difficult forvoluntary organisations to work with schools. The charity claims thesituation is threatening the provision of extended services in the southLondon borough.
Jackie Nunns, chief executive of Kids' City, said schools are no longerable to approach the charity directly but have to go via extendedschools co-ordinators. She is concerned that this approach means schoolswill be left to "go it alone" in the provision of extended services.
"Schools can no longer come directly to us - they have to go througheach of the five extended schools co-ordinators in the borough. If aschool approaches us directly to provide extended services, it ought tobe possible to make that happen. We are experts at what we do and I amworried that schools are not going to be able to do as good a job as wecan," she said, adding that the charity's work had not been "valued orencouraged" by the council.
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