scottish new community schools

The new community schools initiative draws upon aspects of this tradition and looks to the experience of full-service schooling in the United States. Four elements are highlighted:

• The integrated provision of school education, family support and health education and promotion services.

• Clear management arrangements for the integrated delivery of services. Drawing upon the experience of full-service schooling, some effort has been made to avoid an inappropriate centralizing of control (in the hands of the head teacher).

• The adoption of strategies to encourage students and parents, together and separately, to develop positive attitudes to learning.

• A focusing of support on the family unit to 'encourage and bring out the best in both parent and child through family learning and the development of positive parent-child interaction' (Scottish Office 1999: 5).

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