Links to Educational Policy Areas:

Department for Education and Skills
A central UK government department whose aims are to create a better educated and more highly skilled workforce and to build a fair and inclusive society where everyone must have the opportunity to release their potential.

The Parents Centre
The Parent Centre is for all parents and carers who want to help their child to learn. It offers support, information and advice about you child's learning and the English education system.

Playing for Success (PfS)
A Department for Education and Skills initiative, to establish out-of-school hours study support centres at football clubs and other sports grounds. The centres use the environment and medium of football, rugby and other sports as motivational tools and focus on raising literacy, numeracy and ICT standards amongst Key Stage 2 and 3 pupils

Standards Fund
The Government’s main channel for targeting funds towards national priorities to be delivered by Local Education Authorities and schools.

Links to External Related Sites:

Children's University
An out-of-school literacy learning programme for primary school pupils aged seven to eleven and year seven pupils in secondary schools.

ContinYou
ContinYou is an exciting new community learning charity, formed by the merger of CEDC and Education Extra. ContinYou will provide a range of exciting programmes that encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to take an interest in learning.

Food Standards Agency
An independent food safety watchdog set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public’s health and consumer interests in relation to food.

National Grid for Learning (NGfL)
A government initiative to provide a gateway to educationally-valuable content on the internet (the NGfL portal); to develop an infrastructure in schools, libraries, colleges, universities, workplaces and homes to support access to the internet; and provide a programme of training to develop ICT good practice.

National Youth Agency
An agency supporting youth work and informal education, and promoting young people’s personal and social development.

Office for Standards in Education
A non-ministerial government department whose aim is to help improve the quality and standards of education and childcare through independent inspection and regulation.

Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
QCA helps the Department for Education and Skills to achieve its aims by guarding standards in education and training. The Department funds the QCA's PE and School Sport (PESS) project which aims to identify and disseminate examples of good practice to help schools deliver the Prime Minister’s commitment to two hours of high quality PE and school sport a week within and outside the curriculum. The site gives case studies of good practice in out-of-hours sports activities.

Quality in Study Support (QiSS)
Helps schools, LEA’s, community groups and other organisations to raise students' achievement, motivation and self esteem by improving the quality of out-of-school hours learning.

University of the First Age
A charitable organisation, committed to developing out of school hours learning programmes for young people within the home, school and the community.

Youth Sport Trust
A registered charity established in 1994 to build a brighter future for young people through sport. Its aim is to create opportunities for all young people to receive a quality introduction to physical education (PE) and sport and structured pathways for them to continue participating and progressing.

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