Sentences with phrase «local authority budgets»

Meanwhile, austerity measures are hitting school and local authority budgets hard, and there is a lack of government action to protect children's fundamental rights, including the right to play.

Reduced local authority budgets will make this an increasing problem; the knock - on effect will be on the progress and wellbeing of siblings in your school.

And at the same time, the development needed to be completed within a realistic local authority budget, and be robust, easy to occupy and maintain.

But after John Bercow had called for calm, Corbyn carried on: «When you cut local authority budgets by 40 % we all pay a price in public safety.

«Barriers to achievements for children with special needs and disabilities rise even higher as savage cuts to local authority budgets cause vital specialist support services to be axed.

As the chancellor decimates local authority budgets, he's encouraging councils to make one - off assets sales to plug the gap.

This is all happening when government cuts to local authority budgets mean a greater push towards commissioning cheaper services (or not commissioning refuge services at all — 10 % of refuges receive no council funding).

Since Osborne has halved local authority budgets, these services and the women they support face a precarious future.

The population of most UK cities is getting older, which will put further pressure on stretched local authority budgets

«A reliance on home to school transport leaves pupils vulnerable to cuts in local authority budgets and changes to local provision.

The DfE argues that when academies were initially founded under Labour, no money was removed from local authority budgets to balance the funds the schools received directly for area - wide services.

However, Humphries said each school so far had been completed within the allocated local authority budget.

«The Chief Statistician has concluded that we are unable to publish the «Local Authority Budgeted Expenditure on Schools 2011 - 12: Wales and England Comparison» bulletin this year due to the current changing education policy landscape in England and the large numbers of schools moving to academy status in - year and therefore out of local government control,» the spokesperson added.

The LGA called on the Department of Education to take over these payments to relieve pressure on local authority budgets.

Speaking at the first Prime Minister's Questions since the general election earlier this month, Corbyn said years of Conservative government cuts to local authority budgets had put public safety at jeopardy and had played a part in the fire that destroyed a tower block in Kensington, west London earlier this month, killing at least 79 people.

School and local authority budgets are tight.

They also need to stop cutting school and Local Authority budgets to ensure there is sufficient professional support available for those pupils who need it.

The submission says the government's plans will crowd out local voluntary services because they do not have the financial means to bid for large contracts, especially with cuts to local authority budgets being passed on to them.

But youth justice projects are being squeezed or forced to shut down in the face of cuts to local authority budgets, NOMS, the YJB and YOTs.

Charities have warned over and over again that the cuts to local authority budgets and welfare reforms would have an impact on society's most vulnerable people, but they have been ignored.

Glance at any local authority budget proposal and I am sure you would find, under the heading «budget pressures», a nod the cost of an aging population, and the anticipated increase in social care clients on the next five years.

Despite the big society rhetoric, in reality, the cuts to local authority budgets are cutting away the pillars upon which the good society is built.

As with music and sport these are subjects that have been severely affected, if not entirely axed, as a direct result of cuts to schools and local authority budgets.

«We are particularly concerned that the removal of ring - fenced funding for Supporting People last year coupled with cuts to local authority budgets has created a situation where councils across the country are making disproportionate cuts and rash decisions at the expense of protecting some of the most vulnerable people in society,» chief executive Nicola Harwin said.

«If the Government is truly serious about a high quality education for all, they need to stop cutting school and local authority budgets, ensure our class sizes are reduced and stop selling off school sports fields and libraries.

As result of cuts to local authority budgets, more and more disabled people are being denied the ability to even play a role in our society.

«Schools» ability to manage particularly difficult cases has been adversely affected by cuts to local authority budgets, in particular Behaviour Support Services, and the fragmentation of the school system into academy and free schools.

Creating a building with such thought out heating processes from the outset means the school could be produced with a local authority budget but will continue to conserve energy and money because of its performance capabilities.

With continuous pressure on school and local authority budgets, there continues to be a push for highly sustainable buildings that deliver lower than usual energy costs as well as limiting the ongoing maintenance work that some building types require.

And cuts to local authority budgets have meant that more and more children are taking on more and more caring responsibilities.

Scotland's 32 councils have accepted the Scottish government's # 10.3 billion funding settlement, which contains commitments to maintain teacher numbers but will see cuts to local authority budgets.

Even though education and local authority budgets are being squeezed, API members pride themselves on creating stimulating, challenging, engaging and fun places that children enjoy playing and learning in and that teachers and nursery managers see immediate benefits from.

Cllr Bill Fernie said: «There is not any evidence which links better education attainment to a 25 - hour school week and this would put further pressure on local authority budgets and our ability to make the necessary savings required to manage the anticipated cut in grant funding.»

Realistically, with the ongoing cuts to local authority budgets, it is unlikely that paying privately for legal advice for unaccompanied minors is going to be priority.

«We are being asked to do more work than ever to prepare for hearings, and during hearings; and we must also bear the brunt of the added difficulties presented and experienced by litigants in person, often in very stressful circumstances, and — in family cases — by the added strains on local authority budgets.»