It's not all bad news, though. The Extended Services in Schools survey found one in four schools offered activities for nine hours a day, five days a week, during term time - just not between eight and six. And 95 per cent provided some after-school activities, with 61 per cent providing pre-school activities. The figures were found by interviewing head teachers of 1,001 secondary schools.
Julia Powar is Extended Schools Support Service London programme manager at community learning charity ContinYou, which is working with the DfES's National Remodelling Team to help schools adopt the extended core offer.
"It is a challenging target but we are on the way," she said. "The first target is 2,500 schools (primary and secondary) across England delivering the offer by next year. The National Remodelling Team has just started collecting data and early indications are that we are on track."
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