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Inter-agency initiatives
Schools + =
Janet Levy: Director, ‘Joining Forces.’
“this is a propitious time for collaboration because education and human services face common challenges as they try to help the same people and respond to the same problems”
Community schools: Mrs Liddel: Scottish Minister of Education
“The ‘big idea’ is the integrated provision of services…The focus will be on the needs of each pupil and his or her family, meeting the pupil’s needs in the round. This is not just an education initiative. Many of the barriers to attainment do not lie in the classroom or in the school. By breaking down these barriers, we can raise both the prospects of the children and of the communities in which they live.”
Prof. Geoff Whitty, Director: Institute of Education, London University
“The notion that education interventions alone can transform the life chances of
large numbers of disadvantaged children is clearly not tenable, certainly in the short term, even although we can point to individual cases of bucking the
trend.”
International perspectives
Country Programme Start date
Contact
Canada SchoolPlus 2003 www.sasked.gov.sk.ca
USA Full-service schools
1998 www.infed.org/schooling/f-serv.htm
Charter schools
1993 www.uscharterschools.org
Wrap around schools
1991 http://cecp.air.org/wraparound/intro.html
Safe schools, healthy children
2000 www.gse.uci.edu/afterschool/ca/Documents/
healthystart.html
and
Australia Full Service School
1999 http://bansec.customer.n
etspace.net.au/
Linking schools and communities
1999 www.aare.edu.au/97pap/mukhb467.
htm
Ireland Home School Community
Liaison Scheme
1990 www.education.ie
Breaking the cycle
1996/7 www.education.ie
Community Schools
2000 www.education.ie
National Perspective
Country Programme Contact
Scotland New Community
Schools
www.scotland.gov.uklibrary/documents
England Behaviour Improvement Programme
www.dfes.gov.uk
Extended Schools
www.teachernet.gov.uk
Children’s Trusts
www.ten.info
and
England continYou www.continyou.org.uk
Full-service schools
“A full-service school expands its conceptual boundaries beyond the traditional educational model to a school-community model, where the lines of distinction between school and community are barely visible and where gaps in family support services disappear.”
Building a Full –Service School: A step-by-step guide Ed: Carol Calfee, Frank Wittwer, Mimi Meredith
“For me, the most important aspect of full-service schools is their ability to serve the multiple needs of students and their families. The hardest part is bringing everyone together to work toward the same goal.”
Lori Lanier, community facilitator, Family Support and Preservation Program
What people say:
Michael White: Director of Education: Aberdeenshire
“The provision of welfare and counselling services in schools would free teachers to concentrate on teaching and learning. Teachers would no longer have to be drawn into a social worker role.”
Nigel Williams, Children’s Commissioner for Northern Ireland:
In responding to the Expulsion and Suspension Proposals:
“the Department of Education should develop totally inclusive schools/education so that no child, irrespective of his/her behaviour loses out of his/her education because of being excluded/expelled from school, when his/her behaviour is part of a medical condition”.
Regional perspectives:
Inter-agency initiatives are not new to schools in Northern Ireland – they are already there.
The continuum below illustrates some examples of this:
Extended/Full service schools aim to integrate all services, so that pupils’ needs are met efficiently and appropriately, allowing them the freedom to learn effectively.
Full service delivery
No service delivery at all
EWO Service
School Health Services
Career Officers
Outside agency Projects
Healthy schools initiative
PTA
Youth Service Initiatives
What next?
If you are interested in finding out more or getting involved, please make contact with Caroline Karayiannis, Project Officer: Full Service Schools at:
“When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.”~ Nelson Mandela
028 90 612181
Regional Training Unit
Black’s Road
Belfast
BT10 0NB
