ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses those who take, or will take, responsibility for transition and transfer arrangements or those who wish to develop a dialogue with such senior managers and policy-makers. It will:
summarise the challenges that the transfer of children presents for schools;
discuss what we have learned about the management of primary–secondary transition by drawing on the previous chapters and other reports and published sources and identify where there is a consensus on the direction of future ‘good’ practice;
consider what can be learned from practice elsewhere in the world, including those education systems that do not have a primary–secondary divide;
identify some radical alternatives to the current structure of the education system in the UK.
