Sentences with phrase «local authority maintained»

The government is planning to increase their powers to intervene in failing and «coasting» local authority maintained schools, as well as academies, but concerns about their different approaches have been raised by organisations such as United Learning, an academy trust that runs schools in all eight regions.

The School Teachers» Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) applies by law in all local authority maintained schools.

Rev Leach is one of six headteachers — from both local authority maintained schools and academies — committed to the three - tier system.

End the role of local authorities as school improvement partners when the evidence demonstrates just how effective many of them are — with 86 % of local authority maintained schools rated good or outstanding;

There are minimal differences in outcomes at academies compared to local authority maintained schools — although, overall, LA maintained schools performed slightly better — by 1 per cent across almost all areas.

I wonder if it comes as a shock to anyone else that 12.3 % of teachers at Local Authority maintained Special / PRU schools are unqualified?

This serves to «inflate» the number of outstanding academies, she claimed, while deflating the number of «outstanding» - rated local authority maintained schools.

Firstly the ludicrous assertion by the head of the NASUWT that no school should be making redundancies because there's a huge unspent budget balance across all local authority maintained schools.

Ms Morgan said academies were required to teach British values as part of their funding agreements and that she would be publishing non-statutory guidance on the matter for local authority maintained schools.

The lead school has to be Grade 1 (outstanding) or Grade 2 (good) for overall effectiveness and must be a local authority maintained school, special school, academy, free school or Sixth Form College.

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

Local authority maintained schools remain the largest proportion of schools, followed by those in MATs.

The five A * - C benchmark for Chinese pupils at local authority maintained (LA) schools fell 7.9 per cent, while the similar scores of Chinese pupils in sponsored academies dipped just 0.1 per cent.

Governing bodies and head teachers of local authority maintained schools are required by law to comply with the STPCD's provisions.

They represented a range of academies and local authority maintained schools, with 17 mixed, three girls» schools, and one boys» school across the country.

Kevin Courtney, its joint general secretary, wants cash released to local authority maintained schools as well as academies.

They were followed by converter academies, then local authority maintained schools and sponsored academies.

Sponsored academies Sponsored academies are formerly local authority maintained schools that were taken over and converted into an academy due to underperformance.

Financial pressures are growing on local authority maintained schools and the need to reduce costs is becoming greater.

Most academies and local authority maintained schools are impacted by the apprenticeship levy and public sector apprenticeship target, but many are unclear of how to access apprenticeship levy funds available to them.

However, KS4 painted a slightly different picture, with 176 of a total 1,945 academies classed as coasting (nine per cent), compared to 151 of the 1,090 local authority maintained secondaries (13.9 per cent).

The figures found that the average local authority maintained school had 55 per cent of pupils achieving 5 + A * - C grades in GCSEs, while free schools had 50.5 per cent of pupils achieving the same result.

The research investigated academies that have been open between two and five years with local authority maintained schools with similar characteristics using several attainment measures.

Primarystate schools, both local authority maintained and academies, have many more women at the helm with 73 per cent - though the primary school teaching workforce is 85 per cent female.

While the standards apply to all local authority maintained schools, academies and free schools set up before 2010 and created from June 2014, they don't apply to academies founded between 2010 and June 2014.

If such a report were given to local authority maintained schools, they would be forced to accept academy status.

Currently, local authority maintained schools are only required to provide the sex education elements of the national curriculum (anatomy, reproduction, puberty etc), and some information on STIs and HIV / AIDS.

Commenting on the report by the National Audit Office (NAO), Oversight of financial management in local authority maintained schools, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said:

As France is still under a higher risk level from terrorism, Cannes Film Festival and local authorities maintained the beefed - up police presence that was launched last year.

The Sligo local authority maintains this connection with the fine arts through an extensive program of exhibitions, workshops, artist - residencies, educational and community arts projects.

Some local authorities maintain registers of coaches who are approved to work in schools, and may provide their own guidance on minimum standards.

Not exact matches

Working closely with industry partners, authorities and local communities, we drill to maintain our position as one of the world's leading exploration companies — whether you measure us in terms of value creation, health, safety or environmental performance.

Banks can maintain high GDP growth rates to please local authorities but, while allowing credit to surge, they structure new credit in ways that disguise credit growth.

Banks can maintain high GDP growth rates to please local authorities and anger regulators by allowing credit to surge.

I do hope that teachers will read this book as well as governors, those important people whose powers are being stolen in many Catholic maintained schools by local authority and - dare one say - diocesan bureaucrats.

Since Academy schools are not under the control of local authorities, it is a source of great wonder to me that all Catholic maintained schools have not opted for this status; it is an even greater wonder that the Catholic diocesan authorities are, it seems, actually discouraging the governors of Catholic schools from exercising their legal right to opt for Academy status.

But it was just the opposite; grant maintained schools had far more autonomy than schools under the thumb of the local education authority.

The bill stated that a local authority «shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality» or «promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship».

The Localism Act requires local authorities to maintain a list of assets of community value which have been nominated by the local community.

Registering your baby also helps the authorities maintain up to date records about the local population

Local authorities then determine the post-16 place funding to individual maintained special schools.

Local authorities and maintained schools may have agreed changes to 2016 to 2017 high needs place numbers.

For maintained schools this funding is passported through local authorities as the sixth - form grant, for other institutions it is paid directly to them by EFA.

Under the finance regulations, local authorities have the flexibility to make changes to the number of pre-16 places funded in maintained schools and PRUs.

For maintained secondary schools, this funding is paid via local authorities as the sixth - form grant.

The regulations do not allow local authorities to make changes to the number of post-16 funded places in maintained schools and PRUs.

The local authorities in that area maintain the same powers over housing as before, but the metro mayor is consulted on planning applications that are of strategic importance to the whole city region.

In the wake of his victory in 1997 Tony Blair abolished what he derided as the «internal market» in the NHS, he scrapped fundholding GPs and deprived patients of the right to choose which NHS hospital treated them; in Education he scrapped Grant Maintained Schools, restored them to Local Authority control and abandoned the previous government's plans to give all schools a status similar to Grant Maintained Schools.

The coalition government has gone even further and now local authorities are discouraged from setting up maintained schools, otherwise known as traditional state schools.

The local accountability basis of the Framework is a good approach to take, however, smaller authorities will, because of cuts, be unable to maintain any road safety targets at all.