Sentences with phrase «english local authorities»

The initial seven English local authorities to trial Lifelong Links will be Devon, Hertfordshire, Kent and North Yorkshire County Councils, the London Boroughs of Camden and Southwark and Coventry City Council.

The briefing summarises the latest research on family and friends care and the legal and support framework including new requirements on English local authorities towards family and friends carers and the children they are raising.

The Family and Friends Care Guidance which requires English local authorities to develop policies which promote and support family and friends care where it meets children's needs.

26 (17 %) of English local authorities, including 30 % of London local authorities are failing to comply with the most basic requirement of statutory guidance issued in 2011, to have a published policy setting out their approach towards promoting and supporting the needs of children living with family and friends carers.

More than 40 per cent of English local authorities still do not have a family and friends care policy, over seven months after the Government's deadline.

• Forty - five per cent of English local authorities had not published a family and friends care policy, more than five months after the government required them to do so [1]

Around 35 % of English local authorities have not even published a policy, 18 months after the deadline.

Clause 1 of the bill requires that English local authorities, as soon as they consider adoption as even one of the possible options for a child they are looking after, must consider placing the child with people who may go on to adopt them.

In 2014, Edward Timpson MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families, wrote to all English local authorities with responsibilities for children and families services reminding them that they should have published a friends and family policy.

The report finds that 45 % of English local authorities have still not published a policy over five months after the deadline in the Government's Statutory family and friends care guidance.

A comparison of the effectiveness of three parenting programmes in improving parenting skills, parent mental well - being and children's behaviour when implemented on a large scale in community settings in 18 English local authorities: the Parenting Early Intervention Pathfinder (PEIP).

A new report based upon research by Family Rights Group which reveals that 26 (17 %) of English local authorities, including 30 % of London local authorities are failing to comply with the most basic requirement of statutory guidance issued in 2011, to have a published policy setting out their approach towards promoting and supporting the needs of children living with family and friend carers.

Research undertaken as part of the Inquiry including a freedom of information request submitted to all English local authorities.

Research undertaken as part of the Inquiry including a freedom of information request submitted to all English local authorities found that 163 children in care under a voluntary arrangement have been placed with foster carers who are already approved as suitable adopters since foster for adoption legislation came into force three years ago.

The circumstances of these children were such that English local authorities at times had to seek secure accommodation for the young people at very short notice.

«Irrespective of the result of this appeal, I have no doubt that... a substantial number of vulnerable children are still suffering from a failure of co-ordination between these two departments within a number of English local authorities.

Extending the provision The School Food Plan, interestingly, appears not to reference Southwark in its pages but reflects similar positive FSM experiences in both London and English local authorities.

It continues to review the electoral arrangements of English local authorities on an «as and when» basis.

On May 3, the local elections will see contests in 150 English local authorities.

The Local Government Association released the details of what it judged to be the more bizarre topics English local authorities had been asked about to warn that frivolous requests wasted their resources.

Unlike other English local authorities, the Corporation has two council bodies: the (now largely ceremonial) Court of Aldermen and the Court of Common Council.

All but two English local authorities have now declared their results.

But it could hardly have blown up at a worse moment, coming less than a week before the London mayoral election and elections in Wales, Scotland and English local authorities.

English local authorities will compete for a share of # 690M to be spent on improving their transport networks and tackling urban congestion

It was originally developed in the US; FRED training is now available in the UK through the Fatherhood Institute — which has already trained staff in schools and early years centres in several English local authorities so they can deliver FRED on an ongoing basis.

Roll out food waste collections across all English local authorities by 2015 and move to ban all organic waste to landfill in England by 2020.

Acted for an English local authority in a guidance decision case about Scottish adoptions before the President of the Family Division.

In 2011, the government issued statutory guidance requiring every English local authority to publish a family and friends care policy.

A: Yes, if they are OFSTED registered adoption support services or services procured through an English local authority, services may be delivered in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland although we would encourage providers to travel to the family.

Implementing multidimensional treatment foster care in an English local Authority.

Not exact matches

The paper said confidential local authority reports reveal a social services supervisor described the child as «sobbing and begging not to be returned to the foster carer's home because «they don't speak English»».

English and Welsh local authorities continue to have a statutory basis for the recoupment of the costs of certain pupils with high needs who are attending schools across the border from where they live.

Following the path beaten out by the Plain English Campaign (now in its 30th year) and their Golden Bull Awards, organisations such as the Local Government Association (LGA) and the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) have been expressing their frustration at the proliferation of gobbledegook in public life.At the end of 2007, the LGA released a list of 100 words local authorities should not use, such as conditionality, coterminosity and contestabiLocal Government Association (LGA) and the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) have been expressing their frustration at the proliferation of gobbledegook in public life.At the end of 2007, the LGA released a list of 100 words local authorities should not use, such as conditionality, coterminosity and contestabilocal authorities should not use, such as conditionality, coterminosity and contestability.

The average annual budget shortfall for English authorities to spend on carriageway maintenance is # 3.4 M, down from # 5M last year, according to figures contained in the Association's Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance survey.

In the 2009 English local elections, the party fielded 84 county council and local authority candidates, with a particular focus in Bristol, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Wiltshire and Lancashire.

The English Democrats fielded 84 county council and local authority candidates with particular focus in Bristol, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Wiltshire, and Lancashire.

When that school was under local authority control two years ago, thirty - one percent of pupils got five good passes at GCSE including English and Maths.

But we can and should expect migrants here to learn English, which is why it must make more sense for local authorities to spend money on English courses rather than translation services.

Combined with disproportionately high cuts to funding for local authorities in the north and years of lower economic investment by government in the English regions compared to the capital, how do we get Westminster to care more about the north?

It has been tested by a large number of local authorities in the United Kingdom for their elections, and in 2004 it was used for elections to the European Parliament and local authorities in four of the English regions (see below for more details).

In 2009 the local elections held on the same day as the European Parliament election were for the 27 English county councils covering all the shire districts, and for seven unitary authorities, including five that were holding their first election after having converted from a two - tier county and district structure.

Areas with no local elections in either 2004 or 2009 were Scotland and the remaining English unitary authorities.

As authorities investigate a number of local disappearances, English - butchering shop owner Gravis Mushnick (Mel Welles) keeps quiet so as not to disturb the unsuspecting attention that is yielding unusual profits.

It highlighted: nearly half of the providers visited not having adequate strategies, experience or expertise to support their learners with learning difficulties or disabilities; specialist, impartial careers guidance found to be generally weak, with 16 of the 20 local authority websites reviewed failing to provide sufficiently detailed information; too many learners on programmes that do not lead to further learning, employment or independent / supported living; slow progress by special needs learners in English and mathematics; and poor recording of learners» progress, meaning many are not achieving their full potential.

California's groundbreaking new school funding formula increases resources for students, especially those from low - income families, English learners, and foster youth and provides more local authority over spending, allowing communities to make decisions suited to local needs.

Taking a sample of schools which converted to academy status between 2010 and 2012, there were 3.6 % more pupils achieving five good GCSEs including English and maths than comparable local authority schools.

In its report which judged Wednesfield to be Inadequate in December 2013, inspectors noted: «The local authority has provided regular support, and has raised concerns with the school's leaders regarding the slow progress in English and mathematics.»

«Local authority - funded appointments have strengthened school leadership... Local authority officers and consultants have provided accurately targeted and constructive support for leadership and teaching in English and mathematics... The local authority and the proposed academy sponsor have built a positive working relationship which is supporting the transition to academy status.&rLocal authority - funded appointments have strengthened school leadership... Local authority officers and consultants have provided accurately targeted and constructive support for leadership and teaching in English and mathematics... The local authority and the proposed academy sponsor have built a positive working relationship which is supporting the transition to academy status.&rLocal authority officers and consultants have provided accurately targeted and constructive support for leadership and teaching in English and mathematics... The local authority and the proposed academy sponsor have built a positive working relationship which is supporting the transition to academy status.&rlocal authority and the proposed academy sponsor have built a positive working relationship which is supporting the transition to academy status.»

Mr McKenzie's resignation came as the exam boards and the exam regulator Ofqual were given more time to consider a legal challenge from teaching unions, schools and local authorities asking them to regrade English GCSE papers.

He had been correct to identify the purpose of the provision as being not just to ensure that a relationship should begin to be established between the adopters and the child over a continuous period in a domestic context, but also to enable the domestic authorities (in this case, the local English adoption agency) to assess the applicants, and the relationship each enjoyed with the child.