[eal-bilingual] Fw: Delegation to schools

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Hi Jonathan

 a simple yes or no re delegation of funding is not really possible - it all 
depends on the local authorities approach and whether it provides very 
strong guidance, support, challenge and monitoring for/of the use of the 
funding - where these 4 elements are in place, delegation is very 
effective - the focus becomes the progress of pupils not the staff issues 
that always arise in a service

where these elements are not in place, it can be a disaster and schools can 
completely misuse the funding - but then local authority services can also 
be mismanaged and ineffective.

so on the whole my answer would be a very guarded "possibly yes"

 cheers
 Gordon

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "real.public" <real.public at btinternet.com>
> To: "For practitioners involved in teaching pupils from ethnic 
> andlinguisticminorities" <eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:05 PM
> Subject: [eal-bilingual] Delegation to schools
>
>
> Dear colleagues in England,
>
> Please could as many of you as possible respond to this very quick request 
> with a simple YES or NO direct to my email address 
> real.public at btinternet.com NOT to the forum?
>
> Aside from individual schools where good working relationships have 
> yielded positive results, as a whole would you say that delegation of EMAG 
> funding to schools, rather than funding being retained by central LEA 
> services, is beneficial for the pupils and for our profession?  On 
> balance, a simple YES or NO is all I need to get a general picture.
>
> Many thanks
> Jonathan Brentnall
>
> 