FAQs
For useful funding information for additional activity on extended services follow click here
Schools to report on Community Cohesion from 2008/09. This provides a link to the Teacher net website where information and auditing tools are available to support your internal development and understanding of this work.
Key points are a sense of belonging for all,valueing diversity,opportunities for all,positive relationships and ways of dealing with conflict.
Click here to show an interview about how extended services impacts for schools on supporting Every Child Matters work.
Helen Williams has prepared a summary of the FAQ on Extended services for schools. Download this information here.
Contact point is the register of information now used for referred children - this used to be Information Sharing Index.
Click here for Funding mechanisms and guidance.
Click here for the latest (May 07) guidance from the TDA on Extended Services
The Integrated Children’s System
When children are or may be children in need as defined by the Children Act 1989, it is necessary to assess their needs using the Framework for Assessment of Children in Need and their families. http://www.ecm.gov.uk/ics. The diagram below shows where ICS, CAF and ContactPoint provide support across a continuum of needs.
Extended Services Guidance for Governors Summary
For further information please click on link below
Community Cohesion.
There are new requirements, from September 2008, to report to the Community Cohesion policy through Extended Services in Schools. See the summary document we have prepared to help schools develop more explicitly this work.
Primary and secondary schools now have a duty to foster community cohesion
A checklist for school leaders and governors is found on this link.
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/docbank/index.cfm?id=12618
Community cohesion aims to build communities in which all people from different backgrounds and circumstances:
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have a common vision and a sense of belonging
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value diversity
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are offered similar life opportunities
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experience strong and positive relationships - in workplaces, at schools and within neighbourhoods.