The Executive also restated its intention that all of Scotland's schools will become integrated community schools by 2007, despite HM Inspectorate of Education finding that implementation of the initiative has been "very patchy" so far.
Peter Peacock, Scotland's minister for education and young people, said more needed to be done, but that the report reaffirmed that integrated community schools had potential.
He said he'd commissioned the schools' inspectorate to develop clear standards for the schools. He also wanted to see more work to "ensure the good practice that does already exist is extended across all schools and quickly".
The report, The sum of its parts?, did offer evidence of the benefits of co-located services. In the majority of clusters and schools, inspectors said, support from multi-agency teams had improved the attitude of some vulnerable young people and their families to school.
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