Objectives By 2010, all schools must provide access to a core ofextended services, with half of all primary and a third of all secondaryschools doing so by 2008. However, it helps if schools are given anincentive to undertake this work on top of all the other changesrequired of them, and have a clear set of benchmarks and standards toaim for.
Sandwell Borough Council in the West Midlands approached the challengeby developing a framework for self-evaluation and quality assurance forextended school provision.
The issues Sandwell was already involved in the Quality in Study Support(QiSS) recognition scheme for schools. It collaborated with four otherlocal authorities and the QiSS organisation to see how feasible it wouldbe to transfer the principles of this quality assurance system toextended schools.
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