Guide for setting-up a Second Chance School
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The Commission has produced, in October 1999, a guide which aims to help local authorities set up a ‘Second Chance School’. This guide presents the different steps to be taken when setting up such a school and adresses both methodological questions such as ‘Which local partners should I mobilise to support my project’ or ‘ Which qualifications should my teachers have’ as well as very practical issues such the legal status, the funding or indeed the building of the school. Lessons have been drawn as and when appropriate from some of the existing pilot projects. Whilst this guide aims to provide help to prospective Second Chance School developers, it should be understood , firstly, that since the pilot project experiences are still very recent the ‘lessons learned’ are also still subject to change and, secondly, that each city will have its own unique set of local priorities, circumstances and constraints where the guide will not be able to provide all the answers. We trust nevertheless that the guide will help to substantially reduce that number of open questions where only a purely local response is adequate.