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Every Child Matters: how school leaders in extended schools respond to local needs - full report

Author: National College
Subject: Leading extended provision
Audience: Headteachers, Middle leaders and aspiring headteachers, Early years leaders, Children's services leaders
Date of publication: June 2007   |   File format and size: PDF, 1.43 Mb

Understand and explore how school leaders view the impact of ECM and its inter-relationship with the standards and extended schools agendas in their local areas.

Using six case study schools, representing a range of leadership models, the study examined how school leaders align the ECM and Standards agendas, and how they interpret ECM and adapt it in their own context. The study also investigated whether responses to the principles of ECM varied according to the socio-economic levels of the community a school serves.

The following associated objectives were used to explore how school leaders in extended schools responded to local needs:

  • explore how school leaders align the ECM and Standards agendas.
  • examine the ways in which school leaders interpret ECM and adapt it for their own context.
  • Investigate whether responses to the principles of ECM vary according to the socio-economic levels of the community a school serves.

The six case study school leaders in this report exemplified highly committed, advanced and innovative ways of conceptualising and implementing extended school provision.

A summary of this report is also available.