Community Extended Schools Update Presentation

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Community (Extended) Schools Update
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Kents Strategy Overarching Objective
To support all children and young people to
develop into independent adults with the skills
necessary to thrive in the 21st Century and
contribute to their communities through good
citizenship.
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Community / Extended Schools - the Drivers

• School Improvement

• breaking through the barriers
• Personalised learning
• Parental Engagement

Every Child Matters

• Preventative Strategies
• Childrens Services
• The 10 Year Childcare Strategy

Regenerating Communities

• Supporting Independence

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Sowhat is a Kent Community School?

• A focal point for a range of community services
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• particularly for children and families
• Not an empty building!
• A school that supports all children to develop
  and flourish
• Core business is learning and attainment
• Schools as leaders, contributors and
  influencers in
• their local community

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• EARLY YEARS AND CHILDCARE
• To ensure that all Kent children and families
  have access to affordable, good quality early
  years and childcare provision within their own
  communities
• CITIZENSHIP
• To help young people understand the rights and
  responsibilities they have as members of society
  and to provide opportunities to make positive
  contributions to community life.
• EXTENDING THE CURRICULUM
• An enhanced curriculum with option choices built
  around the needs of the individual.
• HEALTHY SCHOOLS
• To raise pupil achievement
• To reduce health inequalities
• To promote social inclusion
• LIFELONG LEARNING
• To create a learning society in which everyone
  is learning and upgrading their skills throughout
  their lives

PRIORITIES
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PRIORITIES Continues

• PREVENTATIVE SERVICES
• To integrate education, health and social care
  services around the needs of children.
• STUDY SUPPORT
• To build young peoples self-esteem and help them
  to become effective learners and in so doing
  enable them to realise their full potential.
• PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN SCHOOLS
• To ensure that all Kent schools are supported by
  an active parental community who value and
  contribute to the work that schools do and to
  promote and facilitate the involvement of parents
  and carers in their own childrens education.

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• All schools to offer Extended Services by 2010
• By 2008 a half of all Primaries and a third of
• all Secondaries to offer access to the core
• extended services
• (these targets include Special Schools)
• legislation within next year
• Prospectus

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Core Services for Primary, Secondary Special
Schools
Primary

• 8am - 6pm Childcare all Year round
• Family / Parenting Support Family Learning.
• Study Support / out of hours learning
• Swift referral to Specialised Services

Secondary

• Study Support / out of hours learning
• Youth Offer (things to do - places to be)
• Access facilities - ICT Sports Arts
• Family support
• Swift referral to Specialised Services

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• Funding - National Picture 05/06
• SureStart Grant
• Standards Fund 15
• Excellence Cluster - BIP funding

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• Funding - National Picture 06/07 and 07/08
• SureStart Grant
• Standards Fund 15
• Direct funding to schools - ongoing

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• Funding - Kent Picture 05/06
• KCC Funding
• Staffing
• Family Liaison Officers
• Parent Information Point
• Understanding Enterprise
• Leases Legal

• Extended Schools Accreditation
• Best Practice Guide
• Business Incubator Units

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Funding - Kent Picture 05/06 Government
Funding

• SureStart Grant
• Excellence Cluster - Full Service School
  Funding
• Standards Fund 15
• Transitional Grant

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Standards Fund 15

• Pilots
• Cluster Funding
• Parental engagement / Parental Support
• Sustainability growth of breakfast clubs and
  after school clubs
• Arts / Creativity (Creative Partnerships Arts
  Development Unit
• Multiagency Services

Transitional Grant for multiagency services
provision
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Issues for the future -

• Culture Change
• Building Trust / Building Confidence
• Strategic approach to planing and delivery of
  extended services
• Childrens Centres
• Realignment of Services nearer to point of
  delivery
• Capacity of Specialist Services
• Capacity of Voluntary Community Sector
• Resources / Workforce Reform / charging and
  accessibility policies
• Ofsted
• family liaison officers
• housing developments
• reduction in pupil numbers
• use of spare capacity
• School Modernisation / Building Schools for the
  future / PFI
• Sustainability
• Impact/Outcomes - how will we know its making a
  difference?