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Head teachers and staff around the country are grasping the nettle and making plans as extended schools. Simon Vevers reports The extended schools programme is the latest to join what has become a treadmill of Government initiatives in recent years aimed at integrating services for children, families and the wider community. The Department for Education and Skills named 61 last month and pledged in the recent Green Paper, Every Child Matters, to create a full-service extended school in each local education authority by 2006.

The extended schools programme is the latest to join what has become a treadmill of Government initiatives in recent years aimed at integrating services for children, families and the wider community. The Department for Education and Skills named 61 last month and pledged in the recent Green Paper, Every Child Matters, to create a full-service extended school in each local education authority by 2006.

The Government has earmarked 52.2m over three years to develop a network of 240 of these schools and provide core services including childcare, health and social care, life-long learning, family learning, study support, sports, arts, access to information technology - as well as leadership for other schools wanting to extend services.

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