The Pre-School Learning Alliance is sending its resource pack HelpingSchools, Helping Pre-schools to every local authority in England in abid to raise awareness of how schools can team up with voluntaryproviders to offer childcare on site.
Alliance chief executive Steve Alexander acknowledged some schools wereparticularly nervous about governance and legal issues in developingextended services. "It does mean children on school sites that aren'tdirectly managed by the school," he said.
But he added the guidance, which includes advice for governors, modellease arrangements, and a guide to early years jargon, would showschools that "working with the voluntary sector can be made a loteasier".
"All those practical things are addressed right through to the culturechange, which is required in some schools," he said.
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