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Every Child Matters
Ensuring that children are safe, happy, healthy and successful while they are at school is now critical for all leaders. The Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda is at the forefront of National College activities and provision. Our fundamental aim is to support leaders who are embedding ECM across everything that they do as part of improving standards. We know that schools and children's centres cannot fulfil that objective without working with their communities, partners and other agencies. This is why we see Every Child Matters as a priority.
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About Every Child Matters
What is ECM and why it is important?
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Planning, quality and evaluation
Planning in partnership, improving standards.
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Leading extended provision
Issues associated with developing extended services and working within a multi-agency model.
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Schools, families and community
Building relationships with students, families and the wider community.
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Models of leadership
Exploring the best ways to manage change.
Publications
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Every Child Matters - Pretoria
School leaders explore practice in schools in Pretoria in relation to the Every Child Matters agenda in the UK as part of a study visit through the International Leadership Learning Programme. -
Every Child Matters and community leadership - Michigan
School leaders reflect upon the significant impact of Every Child Matters and community leadership in Michigan, USA. -
Enagaging schools in sustainable Every Child Matters and Extended Services - route map to support
A diagram to support the implementation of the ECM and Extended Schools agenda, using a six point framework. -
Enagaging schools in sustainable ECM and Extended Services - running a 'working together' event
A coaching tool that helps groups move their vision of ECM towards firm plans for implementation. -
Engaging schools in sustainable Every Child Matters and Extended Services - levers of change: diagnostic wheel
The diagnostic wheel is a tool designed to be used by school leaders in a one-to-one coaching context, either with a coach or key stakeholder.
Case studies
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From the cradle to the school gates
Case study about Walton Lane Nursery and Children's Centre which operates on two sites and uses its own not-for-profit company to give local families better access to the support they and their children need -
Working with the under fives helps build parental engagement
Case study looking at Loughborough Primary school in Lambeth who uses its children's centre to tackle parents' negative perceptions of school -
Working together for community cohesion
Case study about Guildford Grove Primary School who has used the opening of its new childrenâs centre as an opportunity to build community cohesion in an area with a history of conflict and antagonism -
Sharing a building builds a sense of cross-phase community
Case study about Saltburn Primary School and Huntcliff Secondary Schools who are exploring the advantages of sharing a single, new purpose built school -
Putting pupils first; resource sharing for the common good
Case study about Ladybridge High School and Rumworth Special School capitalising on the unforeseen advantages of co-location and accepting a moral responsibility for each other's pupils
Interactive resources
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Emerging patterns of school leadership: conclusions
One of a series of videos highlighting how some schools are approching the Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda -
Emerging patterns of school leadership: outcomes and impact
One of a series of videos highlighting how some schools are approching the Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda -
Emerging patterns of school leadership: challenges and sustainability
One of a series of videos highlighting how some schools are approching the Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda -
Emerging patterns of school leadership: Garforth
One of a series of videos highlighting how some schools are approching the Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda -
Emerging patterns of school leadership: Delaware and Wheatley
One of a series of videos highlighting how some schools are approching the Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda
Articles
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Community cohesion
How schools can fully embrace community cohesion and how community-facing leadership can be developed, including the National College's Community Cohesion Tool. -
Developing extended services
National College resources: all schools are required to meet the Every Child Matters (ECM) programmeâs core offer of services by 2010. These resources examine what is involved in developing multi-agency partnerships and extended services. -
Implications for leadership and governance
National College resources that examine the implications for the leadership and governance of schools brought about by the government's Every Child Matters (ECM) initiative. -
Why ECM is important
National College resources that examine why the government's Every Child Matters (ECM) initiative is important. The resources also offer practical guidance about how ECM's objectives can be achieved. -
Context and culture
National College resources that explore the partnership working needed to implement the Every Child Matters (ECM) programme, as well as the cultural and contextual implications of these developments.
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