Stuart, Kaz

This resource is a practitioner guide for anyone adopting the role of a lead professional for a child or young person, or anyone working in a team around a child or family. The guide sets out to describe the role, its functions, the skills and knowledge required, line management responsibilities, and gives examples of practice throughout.

This report is a literature review and summary of two decades of international research into school effectiveness. The review introduces notions of school effectiveness, and presents the types of research usually found under the guise of school effectiveness research (SER). It then goes on to draw out major themes and trends in the literature reviewed.

This is a 15 minute Teachers TV film showing how Newdale school has affiliated with a children’s centre and engaged the community in learning and development. The film is set in the school campus, and profiles a range of extended services from the perspectives of the service leaders and parents of children at the school.

The resource is a report of research findings into the influences and motivations for drinking or non-drinking behaviour, aimed at informing the design of interventions for parents and young people (aged 10-18). The research was commissioned by the DCSF and carried out by a private research company. The research seeks to understand the views of young people and their parents in a three month...

This Government paper summarises research and statistical evidence about the effect of deprivation on the education of pupils from the foundation stage to key stage 4 in maintained mainstream schools. It is written by the Schools Analysis and Research Division of the DCSF.

This resource is a DCSF collation of school data that supports the Office of National Statistics previous report on school productivity.

This is a research paper commissioned to Ipsos MORI by the DCSF to examine provision in extended schools (primary, secondary and special). The research paper clearly presents the background to the development of extended schools, the methodology for the research, its findings and it makes a set of recommendations based on these.

This research report examines current practice relating to Initial Teacher Training Co-ordinators (ITT) in the South East in Primary and Secondary Schools.

In March 2008, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published public health guidance on how to develop social and emotional wellbeing in primary education. It is written for a wide audience including the NHS, local authorities, the wider public, voluntary and community sectors and the private sector. As such it has wide influence.

This report written by the HMIE in 2002 identifies good practice in inclusion in Scottish Schools. It recognises the difficulties of inclusion, but also ascertains that inclusive practice leads to higher standards.

In September 2004 the DfES launched a series of units to enhance teaching and learning in secondary schools. This unit entitled “Active Engagement Techniques” is number eleven in a series of sixteen, and provides information for teachers on how to get pupils more engaged in their learning.