The Government is promoting and developing extended schools, schools which provide a range of services and activities, often beyond the school day, to help meet the needs of pupils, their families and the wider community. DfES is encouraging all schools to work with local partners to develop wider 'extended' services. Such services will differ from one school to another according to local need, but might include out-of-school-hours learning activities, as well as health and social care, childcare, adult education and family learning, leisure activities, and ICT access.

Welcome to ContinYou's Extra Time online reference which brings together key evidence, policy and guidance and other literature to support and steer your work in study support/out-of-school-hours learning (oshl).

Funded by the DfES, this resource is free, easy to use and contains documents from many organisations and government departments