The NFER have conducted research to evaluate the value social care professionals bring to extended schools.
Key points:
- Partnership and integrated working are key if extended schools are to deliver the 5 ECM outcomes
- There will be difficulties as differing working practices and cultures will clash initially
- Four models of social care seem to exist, which are not mutually exclusive
- Across the differing models there is agreement that placing social care professionals in schools is beneficial
- There was also agreement that the extended school is a suitable venue in which social care professionals can fulfil their service remit
- Less qualified staff are being used within the extended school setting to provide lower-level needs and referring higher-level needs to appropriate colleagues. This creates capacity in the social care system and enables effective allocation of workforce skills
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