Primary Schools and Other Agencies - the first of 3 MMU Research Reports for the Primary Review is published

Authors:
Ian Barron, Rachel Holmes and Maggie MacLure, ESRI, MMU
Katherine Runswick-Cole, Sheffield Hallam University

Primary Schools and Other Agencies (Primary Review Research Report 8/2) was published on 23 November 2007, as part of the Primary Review, the first comprehensive review of English primary education for 40 years. This commissioned research report examines the shifting relationships that have obtained over the past four decades between education and the various agencies with which primary school children in the UK may come into contact.

The full report lists all sources consulted and is available at www.primaryreview.org.uk

ESRI authors were commissioned to write two further Research Reports for the Primary Review, to be published shortly:

The impact of national reform: recent government initiatives in English primary education (Research Report 3/2) Dominic Wyse (Cambridge), Elaine McCreery and Harry Torrance.

Primary education: the professional environment (Research Report 6/2) Andy Pickard Liz Jones and Ian Stronach

Details of the Primary Review can be found online at: www.primaryreview.org.uk