An HM Inspectorate of Education report said that Scotland's integrated community schools showed no clear improvement in attainment or attendance and that joint working between schools and partner agencies was underdeveloped.
The report found that young people's contact time with social workers was sometimes curtailed by the volume of referrals. The lack of a clear strategy to support the education of pupils withdrawn from the formal curriculum was also criticised.
Peter Peacock, Scottish education minister, has now commissioned the inspectorate to deve-lop guidelines to spread good practice among integrated community schools.
The pilot scheme has operated in 400 Scottish schools since 1998. Complete roll-out is expected by 2007.
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