What are the benefits of providing extended services?
Standards and children and young people’s well being go hand in hand. Providing extended services: • supports improvements in standards; • enables children to have fun and develop wider interests/new skills; • enhances support for vulnerable children and those most at risk; • encourages greater parental involvement in children’s learning; • makes better use of our school facilities by opening up sports, arts and ICT facilities to the community; • provides better help to staff and parents to address children’s wider needs, such as support from visiting multi agency teams; • provides additional opportunities for staff in schools e.g. children and support staff may be interested in additional work in some of the services; • enables parents to return to work and so reduces the number of children living in poverty; • reduces health inequality through greater take up of school based health and social care services such as smoking cassation clubs or midwifery services.
