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
Summary
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; and succeed with the right criteria for effective support
