Sentences with phrase «local authority role»

There are evident parallels with the push for total academisation and the removal of the local authority role in school improvement.

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The answer depends on whether you think the federal government can play a catalytic role in forcing local authorities to confront national issues.

It also suggested Congress take a larger role in addressing Russia's cyber activity and empower state and local authorities to secure election infrastructure.

While different from the role practiced in the local church, it is essentially a recognition of spiritual authority based on relational and proven experience as opposed to positional leadership.

Even our so - called democracy is only a refined model with different names for the dominating roles — from the president and the housing authority, to the bureau chief and the local cop.

The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS) has the role of championing children's best interests in the family court system — so if you end up in court fighting for custody of your child, or if the local authority takes out care proceedings, a CAFCASS social worker will be assigned to the case.

The database, commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills and called the Commissioners» Toolkit, is intended for use by commissioners of parenting support in local authorities and by others in similar roles across England — who will be able to use it to select and locate parenting support programmes that can be replicated for use in their area.

Further information on local authorities» role in home education is available on teachernet.

But there is currently no role or funding for local authorities or the voluntary sector to promote dialogue and integration.

Commenting on plans for local authorities to decide where new schools should open, Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «This is a clear admission that the free school policy has not effectively addressed local need for new places and concedes the vital role of the local authority in funding for new school places and the right of the local authority to select the provider.

When the responsibility for public health moves to local authorities there will be further opportunities for doctors to play a leading role in finding local solutions to help their communities in areas like cold housing and fuel poverty.»

The family of the late Sheikh Abdullah al - Ahmar, formerly paramount chief of Yemen's most powerful tribal confederation, the Hashid, combines traditional authority with a prominent economic role in local business and a political role in parliament and in the opposition.

He moved on to other roles in local government, serving as Head of Environmental Health and Consumer Affairs at the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, later the Local Government Association, 1988 &mdashlocal government, serving as Head of Environmental Health and Consumer Affairs at the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, later the Local Government Association, 1988 &mdashLocal Government Association, 1988 — 97.

In West Yorkshire, local authorities are developing a Memorandum of Understanding which they intend to present to PCC candidates setting out proposed arrangements for PCP meetings, creating a single data analysis hub, negotiating the police precept and how they see the role of the chief constable.

It creates a new role, that of the metro mayor, in addition to local authority leaders, existing city mayors and — depending on whether the local area agrees to merge the two roles or not — police and crime commissioners.

2) I have challenged Government ministers in private on their approach to schools and the diminishing role of local authorities.

«What is needed is an overarching, coordinating body, a role traditionally played by local authorities, to ensure fair admissions across a large area.

Citizens for Local Power co-founder Jennifer Metzger, who is also a Rosendale Town Board member, contends that state Thruway Authority officials are seeking the lead agency role despite public statements to the contrary.

His words were echoed in the Commons by Schools Minister Nick Gibb who said: «We see a new and stronger role for local authorities emerging over the years as champions of parents and pupils, challenging rather than defending underperforming schools.»

The NASUWT was one of several organisations to raise concerns about an apparently diminishing role for local authorities.

The other key issue here is the role of local authorities.

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.

Local authorities would be given a strategic role as «champions» for parents and pupils, but the Lib Dem leader said the plans did not give councils any power to do this, and consequently took power away from locally - elected politicians.

«There is a strong argument that the enforcement role of Local Authorities has been neglected in the past and should take much greater prominence from now on.

As Mayor Bill de Blasio and leaders of the embattled New York City Housing Authority continue to respond to fallout from revelations that NYCHA had failed for years to comply with federal and local laws around lead paint inspections, some elected officials are renewing calls for the state take a more active role in the city's massive public housing system.

Other concerns include what will happen to the community role that used to be performed by local education authorities in relation to badly - behaved pupils or pupils with special educational needs.

He has forgotten the role of local education authorities in those days, often a force for innovation and an important counter balance to central government and special interests.

The game allows players to take the roles of stakeholders, such as farmers, developer, watermen, and local policymakers, make decisions about their livelihoods or regulatory authority; and see the impacts of their decisions on their own personal finances, the regional economy, and watershed health.

These include: commissioning an independent evaluation of how CfE is being implemented «on the ground»; improving the quality of information available on the aspects of CfE that matter, not those that are most «readily measurable»; simplifying and clarifying core guidance on the CfE; giving local authorities a more central role in implementing the curriculum; and creating «stimulating and challenging learning environments» in secondary schools in areas of deprivation.

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The role of local authorities is changing dramatically, increasing pressure on school based teams, and the free school programme (an off shoot of the academies programme) has introduced competition between schools which focuses attention not just on academic performance but on the image a school wants to project.

While this has now been backtracked, the role of the local authority in providing schools places remains a strenuous, and often, impossible task.

While the DfE has an active role as regulator of academies, this is no substitute for the comprehensive range of advisory services and specialist resources traditionally offered by a local authority.

The SNP manifesto, published last month, called into question the future role of councils in the delivery of education: it vowed to «extend to individual schools responsibilities that currently sit solely with local authorities» and «allocate more resources directly to headteachers».

«In my role as head of catering and school facilities at Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, I could see that local authorities and schools were looking to provide not only healthy school meals, but also a convenient and safe way for parents to pay.»

Preparing for adulthood • Planning for young people's futures • A broad range of education and learning opportunities: Wolf Review • Employment opportunities and support: the role of disability employment advisers • A coordinated transition to adult health services: joint working across all services • Support for independent living Services working together for families • Local authorities and local health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangeLocal authorities and local health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangelocal health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangelocal professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangelocal areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangelocal freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangements

Q: Who will monitor provision and outcomes for SEN children with the diminished role of the local authority?

Whilst the last few years have seen a significant change in the role of the local education authority (LEA), successive governments have still seen fit to ensure the responsibility for school place planning still rests with the local authority.

Kojonup District High Sschool, highly commended in the 2013 Waste Authority Infinity Awards, is a great example of what regional schools can do and has become a terrific role model for its community, recently featuring in an educational DVD on best practice recycling sponsored by their local recycling depot.

School Business Managers The role of the school business manager (SBM) in the conversion to an academy is an instrumental one, as the school will become financially independent from the local authority when it converts.

The Scottish government, Education Scotland, the SQA, teachers, schools, colleges and local authorities all have an important role to play in reducing this workload.»

According to the association, some local authorities have had to commission professionals in this role as they no longer employ them in schools.

Commenting on the report, David Laws, chairman of EPI, said: «For too long the debate about «academisation», the possible roles for local authorities in school improvement, and the impact of structural reform on our school system has been dominated by political ideologies, half - truths and hunches, rather than by evidence and careful analysis.

Given these changes, the role of local authorities will be to ensure every child has a school place, that the needs of all pupils are met and championing parents and the local community, but they will step back from maintaining and improving schools.

Other features included Local Authorities Connect, which focused on the continuing important role by local authorities in the procurement and management of education spaces, following the government's proposed White Paper in October last Local Authorities Connect, which focused on the continuing important role by local authorities in the procurement and management of education spaces, following the government's proposed White Paper in OctoberAuthorities Connect, which focused on the continuing important role by local authorities in the procurement and management of education spaces, following the government's proposed White Paper in October last local authorities in the procurement and management of education spaces, following the government's proposed White Paper in Octoberauthorities in the procurement and management of education spaces, following the government's proposed White Paper in October last year.

There is already no role for the elected local authority to oversee processes and procedures in academies.

In taking on such roles, local authority staff can position themselves as guardians of improved outcomes for all young people and their families - protectors of a more collegiate approach but not as custodians of day - to - day activities.

Encouraging Schools and local authorities play a vital role in encouraging children of all abilities to be active and many are investing in improving their outdoor spaces.

We all share a responsibility to ensure that children are able to play and exercise enough to safeguard their physical and mental health — parents, schools, communities, local authorities and government all have a role to play.

Key ingredients for successful sustainability programmes Charities, local authorities and businesses all play important roles in supporting schools and young people embark on their sustainability journey.