Sentences with phrase «local authority area»

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

At a local level, members are allocated to a branch which includes one or more local authority areas.

A significant proportion of looked after children attend schools in a different local authority area to the local authority that looks after them.

The more obvious case for intervention is in local authority areas with large numbers of schools Ofsted says are less than good.

Many local authority areas of the north have a higher reliance on the public sector than some southern equivalents.

By outlining the steps taken by Lincolnshire to identify and develop a sustainable model and provide some learning and tips for other LAs considering this approach, it is hoped that this guide will help inform work in other local authority areas.

The city has the 3rd largest jobs total by local authority area with 480,000 in employment and self - employment at the beginning of 2015.

The proportion of SEN pupils making the expected level of progress varied between 37 per cent and 74 per cent across local authority areas.

The biggest shake - up of the welfare system for decades will also see low income households in many local authority areas in England begin paying council tax for the first time.

The best performing local authority area is Westminster and the worst performing area is West Somerset.

17 out of Wales's 22 local authority areas voted leave.

The hearing, which is due to begin at 10 am today, will decide if the group should be banned from sleeping rough, camping, and parking vehicles from any land or public open space within the whole of the Bristol local authority area.

Scottish Tories currently campaigning for local government elections on May 4th tell stories about encountering long - standing Labour voters in local authority areas not exactly known for being friendly to Conservatives and who now declare their intention to vote for «Ruth» and the Tories.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said that the EU vote «makes clear that the people of Scotland see their future as part of the European Union» after all 32 local authority areas returned majorities for Remain.

The City of Manchester is the third most deprived local authority area in England, with 20 per cent of residents claiming income support - twice the national average.

Turnout was 35.4 % and the only local authority area of the 22 in Wales to vote No was Monmouthshire, by a margin of 320 votes.

The DEMOS analysis was based on GCSE results from 2014 and indicates that the attainment gap widened in 72 out of 152 local authority areas last year.

Cork City accounts for most of the smallest local election constituencies, with a number of electoral areas within the Dublin City, Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown and Galway City local authority areas also figuring on this list.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has backed down the proposals to force every school to convert into an academy, meaning only those deemed as failing or coasting will be forced to convert, as well as those in local authority areas no longer deemed to be «viable».

According to the council's specifications, there is currently no SEMH specialist school in the Blackpool Local Authority area.

Schools in Labour - run local authority areas are more likely to face forced academisation under new laws designed to clamp down on coasting councils.

But schools in the historically lowest - funded local authority areas will gain an average of 3.6 per cent more under the new formula.

In the new code, the government is to ban lotteries across whole local authority areas - although they were not widely used anyway - saying these can leave pupils having to travel large distances if chance allocates them a school far from home.

R (Derbyshire County Council) v Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield Combined Authority [2016] EWHC 3355 (Admin)(High Court) The first ever judicial review relating to combined authorities, challenging a consultation on changing the boundaries of a combined authority to include new local authority areas.

XenZone's Kooth service offers mental health support for children and young people; it now has over 114,500 registered users in over 40 local authority areas XenZone, pioneer of online counselling and support services, has released figures today showing a steep rise in demand for Kooth, its digital therapy service for children and young people, -LSB-...]

I have no doubt that becoming a Regional Adoption Agency has already benefitted children and families touched by adoption or special guardianship in the Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole local authority areas.

The NUT asked pollsters YouGov to survey just over 1,000 parents in 22 local authority areas of England where free schools are being planned.

Labour support fell by over ten percent between the local elections of 2009 and 2014 in a number of other local authority areas, including South Dublin County (14.8 %), Fingal (14.4 %), Cork City (12.6 %) and Kildare (10.2 %).

EFA urges local authorities to reduce administrative costs, particularly for institutions with students from multiple local authority areas, through adopting common commissioning approaches with neighbouring authorities and use the same contracts for high needs students across all institutions.

The 40 local authority areas with the worst anti-social behaviour will get extra money from the Home Office, the government's «respect» tsar has announced.

The results are declared by local authority area, with voting happening in 380 regions.

Helping re-shape a postnatal assessment tool to measure the mental health and wellbeing of fathers and their families in a local authority area

Place funding can not be reserved by a local authority for a specific pupil or student, or local authority area.

«We agree there should be a presumption in favour of sustainable development but it has to be based on consistent guidance and parameters on what constitutes «sustainable development» in the economic sense across all Local Authority areas,» said Eddie Tuttle Public Affairs and Policy Manager.

In March 2003, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott announced that the maximum discount was to be cut in 41 local authority areas in London and the South East.

The Supplementary Vote (SV)-- this system is employed to elect single office - holders for a whole regional or local authority area (spanning many constituencies or wards, and sometimes called «at large» elections).

Directly elected mayors in England and Wales are local government executive leaders who have been directly elected by the people who live in a local authority area.

Research for the BBC by Experian identified Middlesbrough as the most vulnerable of 324 local authority areas, with Hartlepool, Sunderland and Redcar and Cleveland all in the bottom 20.

It contains the local authority areas of Scottish Borders, South Ayrshire, and Dumfries and Galloway, as well as part of the territory of East Ayrshire, East Lothian, Midlothian, North Ayrshire, and South Lanarkshire councils.

This system is employed to elect single office - holders for a whole regional or local authority area (spanning many constituencies or wards, and sometimes called «at large» elections) while taking account of the preferences of as many voters as possible.

Mr Blair also promised that at least one school in every local authority area would offer the international baccalaureate (IB) by 2010.

While Labour fared better in Dublin relative to the rest of the state at these elections, the party's highest shares of the vote at a local authority area level were recorded in Westmeath (13.7 %), Kildare (13.5 %) and Carlow (13.2 %), but just ahead of Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown (13.1 %) and Dublin City (12.7 %).

Apart from these counties / cities, Labour failed to win more than one vote in every eight cast in all of the other local authority areas, although the party did succeed in winning more than ten percent of all the votes cast in some other local authority areas, namely Fingal (11.3 %), Kilkenny (11.2 %), Galway City (10.8 %) and South Dublin County (10.2 %).

But Mr Corbyn cited research by Shelter, which found families on the upcoming National Living Wage would be unable to afford his so - called starter homes in 98 % of local authority areas in England.

The Office of National Statistics is publishing life satisfaction data down to local authority areas in October.

We identify them as the nine Jobcentre Plus districts, covering 20 local authority areas with the highest rates of long term youth unemployment and the lowest rates of return to work.