Extended services: Leeds - Growing together

Nursery World, 19 July 2007

Clusters of schools over a large and populous area are leading the way to new styles of management and service delivery. Simon Vevers investigates.

The development of extended services through clusters of schools will require new forms of governance - and for Mark Hopkins, strategic manager of the programme in Leeds, that could mean chief executives rather than school heads ultimately taking the leading role. He says, 'We need to rethink the whole issue of governance. We are not just talking about having governing bodies as we have now. That mould has to be broken. The governance of extended services...

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