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See a summary of the events that took place in Bradford during the WDWTWA Week

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Welcome to the Schools Linking Network website!

This site offers support for school linking within the UK in the following ways:

• Through strategic development of local authority work with school linking
  
• Direct school-to-school linking across the country via the National Gateway
  
• By providing resources, courses and advice for anyone interested in the way school linking can support active citizenship and greater understanding of issues of identity and diversity

The Schools Linking Network draws on six years' experience of local linking in Bradford (go direct to Bradford Gateway), where we now work with approximately 100 schools per year. In 2006-7 we also worked with Tower Hamlets, which now runs its own School Linking Project and in 2007-8 we are embarking on a national programme to support other local authorities across the UK to establish sustainable and effective linking programmes which respond to and meet local need.

We are also working in collaboration with the British Council to support individual school-to-school links. The National Gateway, built especially for the Schools Linking Network, will work with schools to form partnerships in other parts of England.

We are inviting all schools interested in finding partner schools in England to register on the new National Gateway on this site. Here, schools will be supported with free CPD and resources by us, and put in touch with partner schools within their area or in a different part of England.

 Go direct to the National Gateway

Successful school linking is a powerful vehicle which enables schools to fulfil the new DCSF guidance on Community Cohesion and enables students of all ages to meet the requirements of the citizenship curriculum and become confident and articulate young people. The Schools Linking Network has been developed to support schools and local authorities to tackle this work with clarity and enthusiasm.