Nursery World - Editor's view (285)

The heat is rising and the school holidays are imminent, so it seems like a good point to take stock of the extended schools initiative in advance of the hurly burly of the new term. This week's Special Report 'Linking up' (pages 10-11) examines whether the target of 2,500 schools providing the core offer by the end of September is likely to be met. 'With difficulty'

(pages 10-11) examines whether the target of 2,500 schools providing the core offer by the end of September is likely to be met. 'With difficulty'

is the short answer!

Those headteachers wary of involvement in the programme, afraid that it will add to an already onerous workload, should take note of our case study, Wychall Primary School in Birmingham, which won Extended School Team of the Year in the recent Childcare Stars Awards. Wychall is a tremendous advertisement for the benefits of becoming an extended school and exemplifies the best of multi-agency working. While understanding much more about the roles that other team members play in providing services for children, each now has much more opportunity to do the specific job they were taken on to do - with greatly improved results for the children.

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