Sentences with phrase «local authority run»

On a like - for - like comparison when judged by Ofsted, Free Schools are outperforming local authority run schools.

According to the General Permitted Development Order (1995), local authority run schools are permitted: «any small ancillary building, works or equipment on land belonging to or maintained by them required for the purposes of any function exercised by them.»

The letter highlighted failings at seven multi-academy trusts and warned that problems at these trusts often mimicked those found in poor performing local authority run schools.

Local authority run primaries were also rated better than their academy counterparts, with 91 per cent rated good or outstanding in their last inspection compared to 86 per cent of primary academies.

Academisation «does not automatically raise standards» and many local authority run schools are outperforming academies, according to new research published by the Education Policy Institute (EPI).

However, the suggestion of forced academisation drew heavy criticism from teaching unions and the Labour Party, who argued that there was no clear evidence that academy conversion actually raised standards and it would be a waste of money to force successful local authority run schools to convert.

The changes to legislation will mean new tougher measures to raise standards in coasting schools and will apply to all types of school, including local authority run and free schools.

Blunkett was one of the ministers responsible for drawing up initial plans for academies under the Labour government in the 2000s but, writing for The Observer, he said that it is «mystifying» that the government wants to convert already high performing local authority run schools.

He fails to point out, of course, that a higher proportion of these academies are failing than of their local authority run equivalents, but that will surprise no one here in Wales: we are used to Tory Ministers smiling sweetly as they smear.

Indeed, every single one of the schools Lord Harris has taken over gets at least an additional twenty per cent or more young people to pass five good GCSEs compared to the record when the Local Authority ran it.

Following Prime Minister David Cameron's calls in October that «local authorities running schools were a thing of the past», the announcement is due to make it easier for academy chains to take on failing schools, including those with financial or inspection problems.

This policy also perpetuates the convenient Tory myth that local authorities run schools.

Chancellor George Osborne said last year the academies revolution would make «local authorities running schools a thing of the past».

Not exact matches

The notice, which calls on local authorities to «create and refine platforms for exposing defaulted borrowers» by the end of the year, was jointly issued by China's Supreme People's Court, the Chinese Communist Party's Publicity Department and the China Banking Regulatory Commission, according to the state - run Xinhua News Agency.

The former are run by entangled webs of local transportation authorities and quasi-private operating boards.

Resolve a dispute and file a complaint with authorities including the local postmaster and the advertising manager of the publication where the ad ran.

Did you know we called on the federal government to create a local airport authority to run YVR in 1987?

Across the U.S., many water systems are still run by local authorities and many of these entities can serve as appealing bolt - on purchases.

I talked to my local authority yesterday and not only do they have no properties at all, but we have a huge waiting list for social housing, and the private rented sector is running incredibly hot as well, so where are these people to go?

The FI is supporting the campaign, which complements our supported reading programme for dads, FRED (Fathers Reading Every Day), which is already running in local authorities across England including Leicester, York, Lambeth, Southwark, Sutton and Salford through funded projects.

The Fatherhood Institute and the Family Rights Group are running a two year project, initially with six local authorities, to engage more effectively with fathers and other men around the child.

Those who fail to complete the installation will have their subsidy halved over the next 25 years, meaning the cost incurred to local authorities as a result of the incentive being cut early could run to hundreds of millions of pounds.

Local authorities are running out of time to make their data network compliant with government standards before they are cut off from central government networks.

«Autonomy doesn't mean that headteachers can run their school free from scrutiny or demanding standards, it means academies can be run without having to second guess advice or interference from local authorities.»

On local issues Corbyn did say Labour would allow local authorities to run their own bus services.

Mr. Speaker, we note that several transition programs run under the various government institutions and agencies including the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, the National Vocational and Technical Institute (NVTI), Council for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (COTVET), Youth Enterprises Support and the Youth Employment Authority, have targeted non-tertiary graduates.

To achieve this, Government is urged to make sure healthy placemaking runs throughout the revised National Planning Policy Framework and that local authorities introduce healthy placemaking across all local and neighbourhood plans.

What influence can my right hon. Friend bring to bear on the Welsh Local Government Minister to force Labour - run and independent - run authorities across Wales to follow their lead and do the same?

While local authorities appeared to have not looked at the matter, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office issued a subpoena to the PEF local formerly run by Lee.

A «knee - jerk» reaction to the Baby P tragedy could cause damage to the care of children in the long run, local authorities warn.

But he is the only Conservative local authority leader to run an authority paying the living wage.

ATHOL — The town of Thurman's Local government functions came to a standstill Jan. 3 after a slim majority of the newly - aligned town board refused to pass routine municipal resolutions that allow government to operate, and questioned the basic authority of the supervisor to run a meeting and serve as the town's chief executive.

It is a single - tier unitary authority which means it runs all the local services in its area rather than being spilt between district and county councils like most of the region.

Defra will fund # 1.5 million over three years to support pilot schemes, but local authorities must meet the start - up costs - estimated at # 100,000 to # 200,000 a year - and running costs of # 500,000 a year.

Labour campaigners hope pointing to «Tory cuts» in Conservative - run local authorities will help their defence of key marginal seats.

The perk would apply to those travelling within local authorities where buses are either run by the council or through a franchising scheme.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan also sung the praises of the initiative, which sees schools run independently of local authorities and exempt from teaching the national curriculum.

Running an eye down the list of local authority staff with powers of entry, we find three licensing officials in Barnet; 19 staff empowered to deal with noise and pollution in Islington; 22 trading standards bods in Buckinghamshire; one accredited financial investigator in Norfolk; a contaminated land officer in Blackpool; 31 mental health professionals in Cornwall; and about 19,000 others lurking elsewhere.

This is his «passion» and the initiatives it has spawned are visible across government: from the new academy schools run by teachers rather than local authorities, via the health service mutuals planned in the NHS white paper, to the renewed emphasis on charities and volunteer groups.

As a great reforming figure in local government himself, Morrison would recognise the dilemmas his successors face in running local authorities in 2011.

A local group of activists called «Save North Cove» issued a statement Tuesday saying authority chairman Dennis Mehiel should recuse himself from the vote because he has patronized marinas run by Farkas's company.

Free schools are tax payer funded, free from local authority control and are run by teachers, parents and community groups.

Local authorities teamed up with the FBI and federal prosecutors to identify White, and managed to nab him after running a surveillance photo of him from the dealership through the facial recognition system, according to acting Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Robert Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, Compeer of the Mohawk Valley, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Utica Municipal Housing Authority, Utica Safe Schools / Healthy Students / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway program for Utica children, collecting and distributing clothing to the children who reside in Utica's Municipal Housing Authority locations, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Multiple Sclerosis Walk and the American Cancer Walk, collecting food, preparing and serving meals at local food pantries, collecting donations and goods to aid animals at the Stevens Swan Humane Society and other community activities.

More successful local schools will be tasked with running the academies as they move out of local authority control.

«While acknowledging the potential negatives of such a convention — e.g., the risk of amendments being approved that would weaken the home rule authority of local governments — the Executive Committee viewed the opportunity to strengthen the position of municipalities in New York's governmental structure as more important and voted to approve NYCOM's support of a «Yes» vote on the constitutional convention question facing New York voters this November, with the additional stipulation that municipal officials would need to run for and be elected as delegates to the convention if our intended outcomes are to be achieved,» the guide states

Senior Liberal Democrats have increased pressure on the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, accusing him of diverting funds meant for local authority - run schools to free schools.

The Swanage School is independently run and outside local authority control but funded by the government.

The Department of Transport is providing # 100 000 in grants to local authorities, allowing them to run trials of the various fuels, with the aim of reducing consumption and pollution.

FBI aircraft are performing flyover imaging runs of an area on Long Island where local authorities have already discovered 10 sets of human remains.