Educating children, and ensuring they grow up to lead safe, happy, healthy and successful lives, is at the heart of what we do.
The Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda is at the forefront of NCSL's activities, and to back this up a dedicated ECM and Standards team has evolved from the work of the Community Leadership team.
Our fundamental aim is to support leaders who are getting to grips with ECM, while still enabling them to improve standards. We know that schools cannot fulfil that objective alone. This is why we see Every Child Matters as a priority.
After some dramatic rises in the late 1990s, school improvement has begun to plateau. The answer to further improvement in levels of achievement and attainment lies beyond the school boundaries – with parents, families, communities and the organisations and agencies that influence children's lives.
NCSL is committed to helping you develop your leadership of ECM and continue to raise standards. This is a new and evolving area and we want to learn from you as well as give the opportunities to learn together.
ECM Leadership Direct is an openly available online resource that will support leaders to engage with the Every Child Matters and Standards agenda, including the leadership of extended schools. The resource will help to engage leaders in the wider education system by introducing them to new knowledge, case studies, tools, think pieces and publications that can be taken away and used in localities. It will stimulate learning, reflection, analysis and planning using a mind-mapping methodology and navigation technique to reflect the organic, exploratory nature of the ECM and Standards agenda where leaders are at different levels of understanding and learning.
(575kb, 48 pages) This research was jointly commissioned by NCSL and TDA as part of a joint pilot project to energise and develop the capability and capacity of school leaders to engage in the Every Child Matters (ECM) and extended schools agendas in a way which ensures quality and sustainable delivery.
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