1st Edition
Breaking Barriers to Learning in Primary Schools An Integrated Approach to Children's Services
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Wider Children’s Workforce 2. Setting the Scene: Differential Performance in Primary Schools 3. Tackling Poverty: From Beveridge to ECM 4. Learning and Concepts of Childhood 5. Identifying and lifting hidden curriculum barriers for children 6. Challenges for Primary Schools Part 2 Introduction to Part 2 7. Teaching Assistants 8. Mentors 9. ‘An Exceptional Pastoral Care Team’: A Case Study 10. Attendance, Health and Study Support 11. Case Study – LA Integrated Working 12. Public Services: Police and Fire 13. Charity, Consultants and Volunteers 14. ‘Believe in Children’ Bibliography
Biography
Pat Hughes is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, teaching on undergraduate and post-graduate initial teacher training courses as well as more generic undergraduate and post graduate Education Studies courses. She is a course leader for a Master’s Level Course in Integrated Children’s Services and is also a Non-Executive Director of a Primary Care Trust (NHS), which operates in a local authority where both health and social care share budgets. The authority is recognised nationally as a leader in this field of partnership.
