The New Community Schools

Wednesday, June 5, 2002

The New Community Schools approach, which encourages the provision of integrated services focused on the needs of the child, is to be rolled out across 16 local authorities. Minister for education and children Cathy Jamieson said last week, 'I am delighted to confirm today the allocations of funding to 16 authorities to enable them to go ahead with this important work. We are still looking at the proposals we have received from the remaining authorities and we expect to come to our decisions on them within the next few weeks.' New Community Schools projects may involve a single school or clusters of schools, and often involve work across nursery, primary and secondary level.