Officials are working closely with the education charity School CouncilsUK to develop a facility so that school councils can share bestpractice, and they are understood to have earmarked 100,000 forthe initiative.
Jessica Gold, director of School Councils UK, said: "We have run a pilotschool council network for a year and the Department for Education andSkills have agreed to invest in the network so that it becomes a muchbetter product for schools.
"At the moment, there is an online database so that when schools becomemembers of the network they can find other schools and look at theircase studies to see what they're doing. If they want to find a schoolthat is dealing with bullying, or relationships or whatever, they can doa search on the database."
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