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Cluster management aims to sustain extended service

Groups of nurseries and schools in Sunderland are to be overseen by cluster managers to ensure extended services are sustainable.

So far 17 cluster managers have been appointed. Each works with a cluster of no more than eight schools and is based at one of the schools in the cluster.

The managers organise extended services and activities, such as breakfast clubs, after-school clubs, childcare, parenting support, IT courses and family learning.

They develop partnerships between the schools and outside agencies and they also provide a link with the local authority.

Cluster manager Dorothy McKay is based at Bexhill Primary School in the city. She works with six schools and a children's centre.

Ms McKay said, 'We have been promoting the children's centre to parents and we went into one of the nursery schools and took someone from parent support, health and community wardens to talk to the parents and children.

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