Are they working? After three years, the verdict is yes. Full Service Extended Schools (FSES) seem to be good at improving academic attainment for the most disadvantaged pupils, but also improving personal and social health outcomes for young people, family stability and community wellbeing.
So do we now know what is best practice in developing FSES? That is not what the evaluation was trying to identify. This was an attempt to identify what the FSES approach could do. Researchers emphasise this when offering a caveat to their generally upbeat assessment. They were looking for successes and focused on the most well-developed schools producing positive outcomes from the beginning.
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