Support Services and Mainstream Schools : a Guide for Working Together.

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;...

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Other Authors: Blamires, Mike, Moore, John
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgement; Preface; Contributors; 1. Support services: growth and development; 2. Asking the right questions: a development model; 3. Additional support: improving inclusive practice in mainstream schools; 4. Social inclusion: supporting schools to help themselves; 5. Interagency working: supporting school refusers; 6. Interagency working: the education of young people in public care; 7. Supporting transition: preschool setting into first placement; 8. Supporting transition: from primary to secondary school.
  • 9. New technology: services for children out of school10. Local learning groups and clusters: the potential of working in an integrated team with groups of schools; 11. Becoming a business unit: a road to Nirvana or disaster?; 12. The impact of funding; 13. Best value: evaluating support service effectiveness; 14. Issues for the future; Bibliography; Index.