The department added that it was examining whether the school governance framework was flexible enough to meet the needs of extended schools.
Anne Longfield, chief executive of 4Children, a charity involved in extended schools through its Make Space programme, said: "A lot of schools already take this approach. The guidance ensures people see this is a wider agenda."
The Government wants a third of secondary schools to offer extended services by 2008 and all schools to do so by 2010.
The youth minister, Margaret Hodge, said that the Government would spend 107m in 2005-06 on the development of extended schools. The Government's guidance, Governing the School of the Future, is available from www.dfes.gov.uk.
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