They must also get local communities using school facilities. In a report on community-focused schools, the Welsh inspectorate also urged local authorities and schools to work more closely together. It found community-focused school programmes were more successful where there was a specific co-ordinator in place in the local authority. "In many authorities, co-ordination of the community-focused activities of schools, either working individually or in clusters, is ineffective or weak," said the report. "As a result, there is unhelpful duplication of...


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