The Government wants 2,500 schools to offer core extended services, such as access to sport, and other leisure activities outside school hours, by September this year. A third of secondary schools are supposed to offer core services and open from 8am to 6pm all year from 2008, with the rest to follow by 2010.
But last week Rosie Penny, southeast regional adviser at the National Remodelling Team, said the 2,500 target "is presenting a challenge". The team was set up in 2003 by the Department for Education and Skills and helps schools develop programmes.
Penny said: "Change is tough, and this agenda is in some ways countercultural. Where people perceive there are winners and losers, they become territorial."
A spokesman for the Department for Education and Skills said the team is on track to meet the September target.
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