Sentences with phrase «enough school places»

But these camps do not have enough school places for all the children living in them - so many of them miss out on an education.

This meant local authorities lost their power to create new schools, although they still have responsibility to ensure there are enough school places locally.

The MPs agree that having enough school places in safe, high - quality buildings, where they are needed, is crucial.

In many places there are not enough school places to go around for the boys alone.

And there is no central strategy to guarantee enough school places.

They will be expected to make sure there are enough school places available, ensure the needs of vulnerable pupils are met and act as a champion for parents.

«The Government needs to focus on the key priority of providing enough school places for children, with enough teachers qualified to teach them.

There are unquestionably things that need to be implemented from the last parliament — for example, on curriculum and assessment — as well as challenges around recruiting enough teachers in an improving economy, creating enough school places, and dealing with tighter budgets.

If it takes 6/7 years in total to deliver enough school places for children that needed them 4 years beforehand, then there will be a predicatable failure to cope with a sudden influx of thousands of young children.

«We are finding it a problem to fit people in, especially when there aren't enough school places as it is.

The priority for the next government will be to fund enough school places, say local authorities

The Local Government Association (LGA) has stated it should be given powers to build new schools, after the Academies Act 2010 meant that local authorities lost their power to create new schools but retained responsibility for having enough school places locally.

Russell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said there was a need for «unified local planning» to ensure that even with different types of state school there would be enough school places in each area.

Council chiefs said they are doing all they can to create enough school places, but warned they are doing so «with one hand behind their backs» as they need more powers to open new schools and force academies, which are not under their control, to expand.

Fundamental to this is the ability to have enough school places to educate our children and young people — a power which is vested in local authorities.

This, the teacher shortage and the failure to provide enough school places should be her main concerns — not continuing with these unproved experiments.»

We will continue to invest money to ensure that where the county's population grows, we build the appropriate infrastructure and provide enough school places.»

The Academies Act 2010 stipulated all new schools had to be academies or free schools, so local authorities lost their power to create new schools but retained responsibility for having enough school places locally.

«This would condemn thousands more children to inadequate and crumbling classrooms and jeopardise our efforts to ensure there are enough school places

Local authorities have a legal responsibility to ensure there are enough school places.

«Instead of focusing on the need for more primary school places, David Cameron's government has spent # 241m on free schools in areas that already have enough school places,» said shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt.

«It is the responsibility of Government to ensure that there are enough school places.