Sentences with phrase «local authorities»

While the role of local authorities in schools may be coming to an end, let's hope that the role of the local community remains as active as ever.

What is the responsibility of local authorities for ensuring that a parent is informed about and understands the role of the official solicitor?

This is happening at a time when many of the outdoor learning resources acquired or created by local authorities in preceding decades are being questioned.

Developing social and emotional skills, improving outcomes, guidance for local authorities on reporting data.

They can work with local authorities in the foreign country and very whether the missing person has been hospitalized, arrested, or otherwise unable to communicate with those looking for them.

The academies programme that started in 2000 also freed schools from local authority control and gave them greater autonomy over their finances.

Yet another Conservative council chief has spoken out against the deep spending cuts imposed on local authorities by the government.

The statistics are suggest that free schools performed better than other types of schools, such as local authority schools or academies.

Historically, it didn't really exist, as local authorities dealt with most necessary paperwork, such as budgets and personnel.

As a type of academy operating outside of local authority control, free schools act as their own admissions authority.

Free school admissions policies and practices, which local authorities do not have to be involved with, can be less clear and public than other schools bound by different laws.

The results of today's referendum on Scottish independence are being counted and announced by local authority area.

He believes «free schools» are a way of raising achievement in areas where local authority - run schools are not providing a good quality education.

It may come in handy if local authorities become involved.

Also, many local authorities don't have the capacity or desire to run new schools.

This means there will be winners and losers for individual schools as well as at local authority level.

State officials said they will also be working with local authorities who are reviewing the incident.

Of course local authorities across the country have land and property.

Teachers employed directly by academies, sixth form colleges and in local authority maintained schools join automatically.

He acts for many local authorities, housing authorities, schools, universities and colleges and is used to dealing with sensitive issues.

This is a meeting which takes place between local authority Children's Services, other professionals who are in contact with the child, and family members.

However it would be equally naive to think that giving local authorities scrutiny powers is «the answer».

As in previous years, hospital education can be funded either on the basis of an amount per place, or as a centrally funded local authority service.

Meanwhile, there are said to be 44 schools under local authority control which have been in «special measures» for at least 18 months.

Research shows that children in kinship care benefit from increased placement stability compared to children in local authority care, and are able to maintain family relationships.

File a found dog report with all police departments, sheriff's offices, town and county offices and other local authorities in the immediate area and neighboring communities.

What's much harder to fix is the attitudes towards social housing tenants that exist within local authorities and the chronic lack of housing available to those in need.

The party said local authorities must be sanctioned to create more social housing and address the rural housing crisis by abandoning national targets.

This guide makes a number of detailed, practical proposals on how local authorities could make sure that their family and friends carers are well supported.

When local authorities need the land for any other purpose, they can move in without any legal obstacle.

The government requires local authorities to inspect just 12 - 15 % of buildings.

He has experience in bringing judicial review claims against local authorities and other public bodies and is committed to acting for extremely vulnerable children or adult clients with specialist needs.

Free schools have the same status as academies, operating outside local authority control and not having to follow the national curriculum and having more flexibility over staffing.

It would also allow local authorities to take action to fill the gap left by any agencies that closed.

The government may have wasted money on a funding boost aimed at helping local authorities improve their handling of planning applications, a public spending watchdog has said.

The analysis compared the performance of test results of academies with local authority run primary schools in similar circumstances.

# 150 million of capital funding will be delivered through local authorities for maintained schools, based on the number of infant pupils they have.

With so many local authorities needing to bridge the gap in funding, the options of more creative solutions began to be pursued.

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

I've taught in three different local authorities over my career.

The central school services block is funding that local authorities use to provide services for all schools.

It claimed that councils are spending # 25 an hour responding to them, costing one small local authority more than # 20,000 in a year.

Some of what I am advising a parent to do, for example, may have been said already by local authority social workers but they have been unable to hear or accept it.

This shows that despite many carers stepping in to care for children who would have otherwise gone into local authority care, only one in ten feel they're getting the support they need.

The practice is also well versed in advising local authorities on the use of their powers and their authority to act, as well as other governance issues.