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Issue 9.07

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Spending on Late Intervention: How We Can Do Better for Less

Dealing with acute social problems affecting children and young people in England and Wales costs £17bn a year of public money, according to this anlysis by the Early Intervention Foundation charity. Amongst other things, it outlines how much we currently spend on late interventions; crucial yet often unnecessary services that attempt to ameliorate the immediate problems of children and young people, but do not deal with their causes. Leadership Briefing 9.07(103)

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British Muslims in Numbers

This report by the Muslim Council of Britain suggests the number of Muslim children attending schools in England and Wales has almost doubled since 2001 - from 1.55m in 2001 to 2.7m in 2011. It is the first detailed study of the characteristics of the Muslim population emerging from the 2011 Census and is the only comprehensive report looking at Muslims from a data perspective prepared from within Muslim civil society. Leadership Briefing 9.07(103)

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Policies and Approaches to School Evaluation in Europe

Improving the quality and effectiveness of investment in education throughout the EU is one of the key objectives of the European Strategic Framework for Education and Training. This Eurydice Report gives a comprehensive picture of how 32 European countries evaluate the quality of their schools. The report compares approaches, structures, and the roles played by external and internal school evaluation systems, while analysing the concrete procedures, tools, qualification of evaluators and the use made of results. Leadership Briefing 9.07(103)

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