A look at the vital role that the support staff in a large multi-ethnic all girls secondary school in Birmingham perform. Swanshurst School lies close to Edgbaston Cricket Club and currently has 1800 pupils. This programme adopts a fly on the wall style to explore what it takes to keep a school like Swanshurst going. Follow the team of sixty five support staff team during a typical day where they deal with a broken boiler that threatens to close the school, noisy disruptive renovation work, a careers convention, census checking and budget juggling. Swanshurst has an annual budget of seven and a half million pounds and this lively programme shows how the support team help to manage that money and ease the load on the teachers.

Video Series: Secondary Support Staff
Release Date 2005