Goal: To provide a well-trained school-home support worker for everychild that needs one
Funding: Seventy-five per cent of income comes from schools and localauthorities. Remaining income is from charitable trusts and corporatedonations
Contact: www.schoolhomesupport.org.uk/home
Sorting out problems at home can make a huge difference to children'sattainment at school.
With this in mind, School-Home Support was set up to help buildrelationships between pupils, their families and schools.
Now the charity's Isle of Dogs project is to pilot the Government's40m Parent Advisers scheme, which will encourage engagementbetween school and home in 20 local authorities.
The charity shows how the voluntary sector can work with schools toimprove children's learning, according to Hilary Armstrong, the socialexclusion minister, who visited the east London project last week.
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