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For more information visit
www.south-ayrshire.gov.uk/community/learning.htm
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Areas of Responsibility:
• Education personnel
• Child-care
• School boards
• Budget
• Community Education
• Liaison with the Scottish
Qualifications
Authority
• Buildings
• Museums
and Galleries
• Quality improvement to
schools
• Health and Safety
• Public Libraries |
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Primary Education
• School Transport
• School Curriculum
• Secondary
Education
Bursaries
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Continuous Professional
Development
for Teachers
• Special Education
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New Community Schools
• Equal Opportunities
• Pre-5 Provision
• ICT |
• Home-school
links
• Psychological
Services
• School Technician Service
• Excellence Fund Programmes
• Pupil Support
• Outdoor Education
• Cultural Development
and
the Arts
• Lifelong Learning
•
Inclusive education
• Liaison with the
Careers Service
• Staff Training |
The care work of the department is to provide educational
and cultural services to all children and young people,
on both formal and informal settings.
These services include:
• Pre-5 provision
• Home tuition
• Childcare
• Hospital education
• Primary education
• English as an additional language
• Secondary education
• Community education
• Provision for special educational needs
• Out-of-school learning activities
• Pupil support
• Outdoor education
New Community Schools will:
• integrate provision of school education, family
support, health education and related
services
• have clear management arrangements for the delivery
of services
• adopt strategies to encourage both pupils and
parents to develop positive attitudes to learning
• focus support on the family unit to encourage
parents and children through family learning
and interaction
• provide access to educational, recreational,
social and cultural opportunities for the whole
community
• provide lifelong education in a variety of forms
and develop lifelong learners
• develop the relevant curriculum and community
involvement to enhance the delivery of the
National Curriculum
• promote interagency collaboration and partnership
to attempt to meet the needs of their communities
• develop community involvement in the governance
of the community school and to the provision
of its activities.
• working together
• provision of an appropriate curriculum
• decision making concerns children and young
people with special educational needs
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