In February, the TDA begins a national and regional public relations campaign to ensure schools and local authorities are ready to start using the extended services disadvantage subsidy. The funding is available to all schools to ensure that economic disadvantage does not prevent children and young people from benefiting from extended services activities.
And a national conference on extended services, organised by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, is this month bringing together 800-plus practitioners to share learning. In workshops and seminars and in informal discussion, they’ll focus on the challenges ahead – improving quality, ensuring sustainability, delivering impact and raising standards.
The TDA is running six seminars at the conference, and sponsoring a supplement in The Education Guardian, which publishes on 9 February 2010. Next month in tdaNews, we’ll report back from the conference and send you links to the supplement and the new resources.
Please visit our Extended Services pages for further information.
