Their call follows the announcement last week of 46 new extended schools across the UK.
"Our concern is to ensure that these schools have the quality of trained leadership that their communities have the right to expect," said Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers.
"ATL support the concept of extended schools, but multi-service working is bound to be demanding and we are not yet sufficiently confident that lines of accountability have been really thought through."
Ty Goddard, schools in the community manager at Brighton and Hove Council, which has helped pioneer the extended schools programme, said he was working on this with the National College for School Leadership.
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