What is an Extended School?
The DfES definition of an extended school is “a school that recognises that it cannot work alone in helping children and young people to achieve their potential, and therefore decides to work in partnership with other agencies that have an interest in outcomes for children and young people, and with the local community. In doing so, it aims to help meet not only the school’s objectives but also to share in helping to meet the wider needs of children, young people, families and their communities”. Extended schools have been described as ‘Every Child Matters’ in action. The Every Child Matters: Change for Children” programme is a shared national programme of system wide reform designed to ensure that children’s services work better together and with parents and carers to give children more opportunities and better support. The extended schools programme is based on the 5 outcomes which underpin the Every Child Matters’ agenda i.e. to be healthy, to stay safe, to enjoy and achieve, to mak
