Sentences with phrase «independent public body»

In a recent interview with the Guardian, Sarah Parsons, the assistant director of the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), an independent public body that gets involved in family law cases involving children, announced a new approach to parental alienation that she hailed as «groundbreaking.»
There was no independent public body to regulate referendums within the United Kingdom until the Labour government led by Tony Blair in 2000 set out a framework for the running of all future referendums when the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 or PPERA was passed, creating and giving the Electoral Commission responsibility for running all elections and such future referendums.
It requires the environment secretary to bring forward proposals for primary legislation to create a duty on public authorities to apply these principles, and to establish an independent public body to ensure compliance.
In addition, the event would be run by an independent public body who would provide trained facilitators to manage the event.
The Committee on Climate Change is an independent public body made up of highly experienced committee members, including scientists, business people, engineers and economists.

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Environment Secretary Michael Gove urged the Prime Minister and Chancellor to listen to independent bodies that review public sector pay, after a week in which Labour attacked a government «shambles» for initially raising, then playing down hopes that the cap could be lifted.
Mr. Bowsher was also Chairman of the Public Oversight Board, an independent, private sector body that monitored and reported on the self - regulatory programs and activities of the SEC Practice Section of the Division for CPA firms of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
The British ICO is an independent authority set up to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals.
Portugal's Superior Magistrates Council, an oversight body, said it had taken note of the «vivid criticism from broad sections of public opinion», but added courts are independent and it could not intervene, even when faced with «archaic, inappropriate or unfortunate» comments by judges.
Since taking leadership of the country last September, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who in 2009 said the science behind climate change was «crap», has abolished the independent Climate Commission, the body created by the former Labor government to provide public information on the effects of global warming.
Increasingly public health bodies are recognising the need to look to independent, trustworthy information upon which to base public health policies.
It called for Public Health England, the body which the coalition government proposes setting up, to be completely independent from the government.
And often, the principle of independent scrutiny was then taken by the government, or the hard - pressed leadership in a particular area of public life where standards were said to be inadequate, to imply formal enforcement by an external body.
So far, every single act of alleged corruption labeled against any member of my administration has been or is in the process of being investigated by independent bodies, and the findings so far made public.
The president indicated that so far, «every single act of alleged corruption labelled against any member of my administration has been or is in the process of being investigated by independent bodies and the findings made public.
Growing police autonomy, both nationally - the Association of Chief Police Officers, for example, is an independent corporate entity not a public body - and internationally, especially within the EU
He should revive the Moreland Commission as a truly independent body, with the power to investigate, subpoena, and prosecute public corruption throughout the state, even if it affects those close to him.
The legislation would make the Authority subject to open public record laws of both states, require that its meetings be open to the public, establish audit and finance committees within the body, and mandate an annual report by an independent auditor that gets sent to the governor, state comptroller and each state's Legislature.
The Committee on Standards in Public Life is an independent body designed as a watchdog for parliamentarians» activities.
«Its recommendations demonstrate, once again, the value of an independent review body process, particularly when public service workers, including teachers, are facing a hostile Government and unnecessary and unjust pay restraint.
New York needs a new, truly independent oversight and enforcement body with strong effective responsibility for all campaign finance law administration, including public financing and sufficient funds to perform its mission well.
«This bill will create a mechanism for ensuring that systemwide issues are evaluated by an independent body and that only youth who have committed certain crimes or who are deemed to be a significant risk to public safety are placed with O.C.F.S.»
The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.
The proposals include creating a single research and higher education ministry, an independent higher science council to advise the government on strategy, a new body to evaluate all researchers, a long - term jobs plan for public agency researchers, and more crossover between the two groups.
The coalition also signalled that it would disband Australia's Climate Commission — an independent scientific body that provides reliable information on climate change to the public.
The legislation, which covers details only an accountant could love, embraces recommendations from NSF's inspector general, the agency's in - house but independent watchdog, as well as from outside bodies such as the National Academy of Public Administration.
Swedish Match is happy to provide public health bodies with independent scientific evidence.
It is an independent, non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS).
It is an independent, non-departmental public body of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
It is globally recognised as an independent and impartial body serving both the private and public sectors, working with manufacturing and service industries, businesses and governments to facilitate the production of British, European and international Standards.
The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) is an independent and non-departmental public body that advises the government on migration issues, sponsored by the Home Office.
A Department of Education spokesperson said: «We recognise and value the hard work of teachers which is why we have accepted the pay deal proposed by the independent School Teachers» Review Body, in line with the 1 per cent public sector pay policy.
As the executive director and the board chairman of the District of Columbia's independent chartering body, we are often asked whether we favor a «New Orleans» future for D.C., where charter schools eventually serve virtually all public - school students.
KIPP LA Prep is an independent public charter middle school that serves a primarily Latino student body and was one of only two schools from LA Unified to receive the honor, along with Wonderland Elementary, a traditional district school.
Two Republican lawmakers are working on a plan that would turn over control of several struggling Milwaukee Public Schools to an independent body.
An ethnographer by training, since 2001 Jackie has drawn from her direct experience as head of an independent Montessori school and principal of a large, urban public Montessori school to produce an internationally recognized body of scholarship on Montessori education.
Charter school governing bodies are often subject to various business regulations, such as ethical financial practices, and public body rules, such as open meeting laws, and like all public school districts, must have an annual independent financial audit in accordance with state rules.
The report's recommendations include: a limit on the number of times a sire can be used for breeding; health screening should be made a legal requirement for dogs selected for breeding; the title of Champion should not be given unless a dog has been health screened; the word «pedigree» should be linked to a high standard of breeding for health and welfare; an independent advisory body should be set up to advise the Kennel Club and breed clubs; a puppy sale contract should be introduced to protect consumers; DEFRA should take forward a campaign for public awareness.
This included: pressure on Defra and other bodies to supply long term funding for the Dog Advisory Council; extending the Council's powers so that it becomes an independent regulatory body; compulsory microchipping; the licensing of breeders who breed 3 litters or more a year; the KC to adopt the Advisory Council's Breeding Standard; improved education of the general public including Animal Welfare as part of the core curriculum of schools; the Defra Code of Practice for the Welfare of Dogs to include breeding and genetic welfare issues; endorsement of the RSPCA Puppy Contract by all stakeholders.
With the new Stephen Pace Residency for a Mid-Career Painter, the Fine Arts Work Center opens its creative dynamic community to an artist who has created an independent body of work over a number of years and who has received regional or national recognition through publication or public presentation of his or her work.
This exhibition marks a culmination of his acclaimed sculptural approach and the first time a comprehensive body of work by Schanck will be on public view and features 15 works with independent, stand - alone narratives woven into an otherworldly landscape.
is someone who has created an independent body of work over a number of years and who has received regional or national recognition through publication or public presentation of his or her work.
A Mid-Career Artist is someone who has created an independent body of work over a number of years and who has received regional or national recognition through publication or public presentation of his or her work.
The price of the politics of fear is the trust in public institutions of all kinds and their advice, be they corporations, scientific bodies and advisers, independent regulatory authorities, government departments, and politicians.
The caveat is that they must be NSF --(independent third - party certification body that tests and certifies products to verify they meet these public health and safety standards) certified and manufactured by an NSF - compliant company.
Basically someone reasonably fair, independent, competent, able to understand scientists, the scientific debate, and the public debate, needed to look thoroughly over the entire body of emails, and whatever was there, put it in the public arena.
The UK Parliament's Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) has published a report calling for a new national independent patient safety investigation body to be established in England.
We find it surprising and disappointing that the SRA — a body charged with encouraging an independent, strong, diverse and effective legal profession and promoting the public interest — would even contemplate such a course of action.
And it set out a plan for immediate action, including: widening the scope of legal aid; replacing the Legal Aid Agency with an independent body; and improving the public's understanding of the law.
According to Prof Moorhead, the Society could reclaim some of their position by «taking a public interest line, more independent of their members» interest» but such a stance is «not consistent with their structures or status as a representative body».
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