Table of Contents

Support services: Growth and development; Asking the right questions: A development model; Additonal support: Improving inclusion practice in mainstream schools; Social inclusion: Supporting schools to help themselves; Interagency working: Supporting school refusers; Interagency working; Supporting school refusers; Interagency working: The education of young people in public care; Supporting transition: From primary to secondary school; New technology: Services for children out of school; Local learning groups and clusters: The potential of working in an integrated team with groups of schools; Becoming a business unit: A road to Nirvana or disaster? The impact of funding; Best value: evaluating support service effectivesness; Issues for the future