What does it mean? Supplementary education is out-of-school-hours education co-ordinated through local community groups, which takes place in supplementary schools. These are often based in youth clubs, places of worship and mainstream schools.
Supplementary schools often cater for children from minority ethnic backgrounds offering lessons in their mother tongue as well as National Curriculum subjects and extra-curricular activities.
Supplementary schools have traditionally been poorly funded and had a low profile. But the National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education, based within education charity ContinYou, has done much to raise their profile.
Backed with funding from the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, the centre has funded qualifications for school staff and campaigned for stronger links between supplementary schools and mainstream schools.
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