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Authors: Mike Blamires, John Moore
ISBN-13: 9781843120636, ISBN-10: 1843120631
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Schools are sometimes unaware of what support services can do for them while support services need to perform a credible and relevant function. This book will help either party to: make ideas work by being aware of implementation issues; benefit from those lessons learned by successful partnerships; and succeed with the right criteria for effective support.
Acknowledgement | ||
Preface | ||
Contributors | ||
1 | Support services: growth and development | 1 |
2 | Asking the right questions: a development model | 10 |
3 | Additional support: improving inclusive practice in mainstream schools | 21 |
4 | Social inclusion: supporting schools to help themselves | 32 |
5 | Interagency working: supporting school refusers | 44 |
6 | Interagency working: the education of young people in public care | 56 |
7 | Supporting transition: preschool setting into first placement | 68 |
8 | Supporting transition: from primary to secondary school | 78 |
9 | New technology: services for children out of school | 90 |
10 | Local Learning groups and clusters: the potential of working in an integrated team with groups of schools | 99 |
11 | Becoming a business unit: a road to Nirvana or disaster? | 116 |
12 | The impact of funding | 129 |
13 | Best value: evaluating support service effectiveness | 138 |
14 | Issues for the future | 150 |
Bibliography | 161 | |
Index | 168 |