Sentences with phrase «local authority school placed»

Birmingham City Council said it would work with Saltley School, the only local authority school placed in special measures, and the Department for Education to install a temporary governing board.

Lib Dem sources say 30,000 local authority school places are being lost as money is diverted to new free schools.

Liberal Democrat sources say 30,000 local authority school places are being lost as money is diverted to free schools.

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

Place funding at special free schools is not included in the 2016 to 2017 DSG allocations and no deductions will be made from local authorities» DSG for places in these schools.

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

Places in mainstream free schools will be funded on the same basis as those in a mainstream academy, with deductions made from the local authority in which the free school is located.

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.

All AP places will be funded at # 10,000 per place in 2016 to 2017 and must include those which schools commission directly, as well as those that the local authority commission.

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

Either way, this specialist provision is not funded through the main school funding formula; the place or central service funding comes from the local authority's high needs budget.

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.

The Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state school system and placed them into independent schools; the trade union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced City Technology Colleges, which took states schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.

copies of any correspondence - electronic or otherwise - which took place between the local authority and the school and the DfE and the school regarding academy status;.

Free schools are a form of academy school, independent of local authority control but funded entirely by the taxpayers, set up in response to local parental demand for extra school places or better schools.

The local authorities have no say in this, and the department for education has no sanction for those new schools, set up apparently because of high demand, that end up with many unfilled places.

«We have to bring it back to a local level, rebuild the family of education, require local authorities to oversee and provide supplementary resources to schools and allow them to build new schools to meet the need for more places.

After its election the Government put this requirement on a statutory footing: Clause 1 of the Schools Standards and Framework Act 1998 placed a duty on Local Education Authorities (LEAs) and schools to restrict class sizes to 30 in Key Stage One classes from SeptembeSchools Standards and Framework Act 1998 placed a duty on Local Education Authorities (LEAs) and schools to restrict class sizes to 30 in Key Stage One classes from Septembeschools to restrict class sizes to 30 in Key Stage One classes from September 2002.

And yet top tier local authorities still have the duty to provide sufficient school places and are held responsible for standards — both of which they can not control as more schools opt out of local authority control.

Fundamental to this is the ability to have enough school places to educate our children and young people — a power which is vested in local authorities.

But only one of the schools in each place is maintained by local authorities — the remaining schools in Birmingham are academies and independent Muslim schools in Tower Hamlets, outside of local authority control.

We are concerned that more than 20 % of free schools have been established in areas where there is no shortage of school places and, since they are not part of the local authorities» planning procedure, they make it difficult for parents to get their child into a local school of their choice.

Lib Dem sources claim 30,000 local authority places are being lost as money is diverted to new free schools, but aides to Mr Gove say more school places are being created overall.

The manifestos are mixed on this issue: while the Conservatives show no inclination to slow down their erosion of the powers of local government when it comes to school places, and UKIP make little mention of it in relation to education, Labour want to return power to local authorities along with The Greens.

It says that while local authorities created 90,000 school places in 2012 - 13, an analysis based on an online survey of chief finance officers among its members, revealed that a further 130,000 places would still be needed by 2017 - 18.

The funding comprises # 980 million for local authorities in 2019 to 2020, to create over 60,000 school places needed.

In Blackpool and Hartlepool local authorities there are no high performing secondary school places.

The union warned that local authorities, academies and central government take decisions on school places in isolation, adding that the rise in pupil numbers will make it even harder for parents to secure school places.

According to the EPI, virtually all local authorities with consistently low densities of high performing school places are in the North, particularly the North East and Yorkshire and the Humber.

Citing the post-Brexit economy as another reason why the future is uncertain for school buildings, Mark Robinson adds: «The construction of new schools must be a top priority for government and local authorities must be given the tools and funding necessary to deliver extra places in time.

Even better, any schools or local authorities placing orders at the show will qualify for a chunky 10 % discount!

The Department for Education (DfE) has said that local authorities have plans to create 52,000 more secondary school places by 2018, with # 7 billion is committed to new places.

The funding differences are even more stark: if a new school is opening under the free school programme the capital funding comes from the generous free school budget but if a local authority is opening a new school, the funding must come from either general local authority funds (the calls upon which of course are many), or more likely from «targeted basic need funding», which is funding provided by the DfE to address the shortage of school places.

Many local authorities are just as happy now to provide capital grant to schools and academies to deliver additional school places and the EFA is currently trialling local delivery of the Priority School Building Programme (which they had previously delivered centrally) with funding allocated to local authorities, dioceses and larger multi-academy tschool places and the EFA is currently trialling local delivery of the Priority School Building Programme (which they had previously delivered centrally) with funding allocated to local authorities, dioceses and larger multi-academy tSchool Building Programme (which they had previously delivered centrally) with funding allocated to local authorities, dioceses and larger multi-academy trusts.

Whilst it is early days, the trend is being encouraged by both local authorities and the EFA, perhaps recognising the need locally and nationally to develop capacity to deliver new build works and that schools are best placed to make decisions about where to focus investment to secure the right educational outcomes.

«Population changes are not a new phenomenon and local authorities, who are responsible for providing sufficient school places, have traditionally been able to plan to meet rising and falling demand.

Conclusion Regardless of whether they procure and manage their own broadband services or subscribe to services provided by a local authority or regional broadband consortium (RBC), all schools need to ensure they have an appropriate and up to date strategy in place to ensure the security and integrity of their networks and systems are maintained.

After the case, an HSE inspector said: «Although the school had not been under local authority control since 2011, it failed to ensure employees and management received adequate training to make up for the loss of local authority support and ensure that a suitable asbestos management plan was in place.»

There are conditions which local authorities must meet when they are putting forward a proposal for a new school, most importantly they must demonstrate they have a site and funding available (for any capital works) and that there is a demand for the new school places.

«The significant factor in the current situation is that, since 2010, the government has undermined local authorities» legal powers to deliver new school places.

New Schools There are two ways of creating new schools: either by providers applying to the Department for Education (DfE) under the free school programme (which has become the government's main tool for tackling the school place shortage), or by a local authority inviting bids from providers as part of a «new provision&Schools There are two ways of creating new schools: either by providers applying to the Department for Education (DfE) under the free school programme (which has become the government's main tool for tackling the school place shortage), or by a local authority inviting bids from providers as part of a «new provision&schools: either by providers applying to the Department for Education (DfE) under the free school programme (which has become the government's main tool for tackling the school place shortage), or by a local authority inviting bids from providers as part of a «new provision».

Interim teaching facilities give schools, colleges and local authorities the flexibility to increase school places to maintain the highest standards of teaching during major construction or refurbishment work or to meet a short - term surge in pupil numbers.

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

This report is the latest in a long (since the 1980s) series of CSIE reports on school placement trends, i.e. the proportion of children placed in special schools or other separate settings by each local authority in England.

A spokesperson for the Department for Education said: «To help schools respond to rising pupil numbers, the government invested # 5bn between 2011 and 2015 to support local authorities — creating almost half a million new places,» the DfE said.

The state has given schools until August 2006 to place timing devices on vending machines to limit sales of snacks during certain hours; local school boards will have the authority to schedule access.

«And I can announce that based on evidence from local authorities, schools and the support service, over 99 per cent of schools now have a plan in place to deliver universal free school meals in September.

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.

Marcus Sutcliffe, managing director of Elite Systems, discusses how modular construction can meet the need for school expansion Britain is currently experiencing a distinct shortage of school places, and headteachers and local authorities around the country are looking for ways to accommodate additional intake — without breaking the bank.

This suggests that an authority that is close enough to local schools to understand their needs, yet far enough away to avoid collusion between local officials and school employees, is the best place to rest responsibility for funding education.