Extended services, once a key plank of Labour’s children’s services policy, have dropped down the list of government priorities and responsibility for funding provision has been handed to cash-strapped schools.
Now rebranded "extra-curricular activities", Education Secretary Michael Gove has praised institutions that lengthen the school day. But schools must decide if and how to fund these extra-curricular services.
Karin Woodley is chief executive of the education charity ContinYou, which is working to make such services sustainable for schools.
"There is an acceptance that extra-curricular activities promote the development of young people and contribute to educational attainment," she says. "The question is how is it financed and do schools have the support to prioritise these services?"
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