Sentences with phrase «local authority schools with»

Timo Hannay, founder of SchoolDash, says these schools on average do seem to make greater progress in GCSE results than local authority schools with a similar intake of pupils.

SchoolDash created a sample of secondary academies and local authority schools with similar characteristics to see how their exam results compare.

Not exact matches

Recruiting good head teachers is even harder — some local authorities have resorted to establishing networked schools with a head in charge of two or three at once.

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».

It is sixty years since I became a Catholic; five of those years were spent in schools staffed by secular priests and religious, another four in approved schools staffed by laity and with Catholic chaplains; two years were spent in a local authority approved school and thirty years in prisons and the courts as a senior probation officer.

After consultation with parents, priests, teachers, governors and students the Diocesan Department of Religious Education of the Archdiocese of Birmingham entered into negotiation with the Local Authority and Teenage Pregnancy Unit [1] to develop a sex and relationship resource for Catholic schools.

The charity works with local authorities, schools, parents and children to improve school meals and support food education through cooking, growing and links with local farms.

Also, check with your local school authorities (school board), and / or your local government that controls schooling where you live, but be careful of what school authorities and the government tell you.

It provides analyses on the characteristics of pupils by their provision of SEN together with the assessment and placement of pupils with statements of SEN.. It is based on pupil - level data collected via the school census and local authority - level data collected via the SEN2 survey.

Here at Hollinsclough we have many conversations with Parents, Headteachers, Local Authorities, the DfE and others with regard to what is Flexi - schooling; so much so that we have decided that it is time to develop what we are going to term the Flexi - Schooling Federation - this will be open to all to join for a membership fee schooling; so much so that we have decided that it is time to develop what we are going to term the Flexi - Schooling Federation - this will be open to all to join for a membership fee Schooling Federation - this will be open to all to join for a membership fee per year.

Local authorities should make sure that headteachers are made familiar with flexi - schooling and how it may work in practice.

We therefore seek the consent of the Local Authority to allow (child's name) name to be deleted from the admission register of the school, in accordance with Education (Pupil Registration) Regulation 8 (2) 2006.

This cross-section is effectively our «customer base» and is made up of a mix of parents from the Elective Home Education community, through to those parents who have become dissatisfied with the approach of their local school and or local authority.

At the state level, the programs typically are overseen by state education or agriculture departments, which operate the programs through agreements with local school districts or other school food authorities.

Local authorities should work with schools, academies, NMSS, FE institutions and SPIs where they have high needs students, to set funding rates and confirm the funding that institutions will receive from the authority.

English and Welsh local authorities continue to have a statutory basis for the recoupment of the costs of certain pupils with high needs who are attending schools across the border from where they live.

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.

Local authorities will remain responsible for all the funding that independent schools receive for children and young people with SEN.. More information about how local authorities should discharge their responsibilities for children and young people with SEN in independent schools is set out in the SEND code of practice, in particular paragraphs 9.131 to 9Local authorities will remain responsible for all the funding that independent schools receive for children and young people with SEN.. More information about how local authorities should discharge their responsibilities for children and young people with SEN in independent schools is set out in the SEND code of practice, in particular paragraphs 9.131 to 9local authorities should discharge their responsibilities for children and young people with SEN in independent schools is set out in the SEND code of practice, in particular paragraphs 9.131 to 9.136.

It is also possible, however, depending on the range and type of services on offer, for such provision to be a centrally funded service commissioned by the local authority, normally under a service level agreement with the school or academy.

Hospital education is defined as «education provided at a community special school or foundation special school established in a hospital, or under any arrangements made by the local authority under section 19 of the 1996 Act [ie the Education Act 1996](exceptional provision of education), where the child is being provided with such education by reason of a decision made by a medical practitioner».

The Inter-authority Recoupment (England) Regulations 2013 enable local authorities to recover the costs of pupils with statements of SEN or EHC plans, pupils in special schools, and pupils in hospital education.

Expand current free school meal provision and look to work with local authorities to identify future steps to improve support for low income families to help meet the costs associated with school.

Our school, in south west London, was locked into a contract with a substandard local authority caterer.

To provide more fruits, vegetables, and other fresh and nutritious foods for school meals, the USDA is also working to develop farm - to - school partnerships with local farmers, States, localities, tribal authorities, school districts, and community organizations.

The metro mayor works together with leaders of the local authority to create a strategy for the wider area, but local authorities will still be responsible for most public service delivery (such as waste management, schools, recreational facilities and fire services).

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.

The education discussion «focused on David Blunkett's proposals for directors of school standards (DSS), appointed by local authorities and working with councils and the community, to provide a «middle tier» between schools and the secretary of state».

Tristram Hunt led the education session, which focused on David Blunkett's proposals for directors of school standards (DSS), appointed by local authorities and working with councils and the community, to provide a «middle tier» between schools and the secretary of state.

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.

Working closely with the Department for Transport, Local Authorities, Road Safety Officers and direct with local schools, since 2005 we donated almost 100,000 high - visibility reflective vests to Key Stage 2 pupils at primary schools located in regions where 3M has a presLocal Authorities, Road Safety Officers and direct with local schools, since 2005 we donated almost 100,000 high - visibility reflective vests to Key Stage 2 pupils at primary schools located in regions where 3M has a preslocal schools, since 2005 we donated almost 100,000 high - visibility reflective vests to Key Stage 2 pupils at primary schools located in regions where 3M has a presence.

«I urge local authorities to join with schools, parents and the public, who are outraged by the cuts to the school building programme, and support the NASUWT's lobby of Parliament on Monday 19 July.»

Lucy Anderson from the National Policy Forum said Labour must seek to re-establish a form of local authority control over schools and Heather Wakefield from UNISON said that local government has been the biggest victim of the coalition's austerity binge and that, with privatisation, huge amounts of public funds were wasted when local government contracted out public services.

We have not resisted Michael Gove's emaciation of local authorities» involvement in education in England with the quangoisation of schools through a massive expansion in the number of Academies.

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

The similarities to today, with local authorities using counter-terrorism powers to put families under surveillance to see if they are in the correct school catchment area, are obvious.

A study led by Professor Nick Gallent of the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, looked at how communities in Kent have sought to influence the policies of local authorities and service providers and how, in the recent past, they have engaged with planning professionals around the production of «parish plans».

The government promised to provide all children with «access to the kind of education only the rich can afford» when it launched the policy of allowing parents to set up schools free from local authority control.

Mr Gove also told Andrew Marr he was now operating a «tighter inspection regime» for both free schools and local authority schools, and the test would be the «speed with which you deal with failure».

«Local authorities should continue to exercise their arm's - length support for all state schools funded wholly or partially with public funds with particular emphasis on their work with disadvantaged pupils.»

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.

They simply don't have the LEGAL authority to cut the overwhelming majority of their expenses and with the double digit cut in state aid most local school districts will receive, they will have to make up for that money by significantly jacking up property taxes... which are far more regressive and oppressive than income taxes.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have strong local authorities working in partnership with schools under a devolved system of local accountability.

«We need the frontline clinicians to be astute and notice if they are seeing patients with an unusual infection, or a number of similar infections from a specific location such as a child care center, nursing home or eating facility and then work closely with the state and local health authorities,» said Larry Pickering, MD, a co-author of the guidelines and adjunct professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

Researcher Developer Dr Rachel Westwood, Research Fellow Mr Sam Toon, and Emeritus Professor Peter Styles from Keele's School of Geography, Geology and Environment — together with Professor Nigel Cassidy who is now at Birmingham University — have published their study advising on hydraulic fracturing safety guidelines for legislative bodies, including governments, environmental agencies, health and safety executives and local planning authorities.

Following the success of the Spring School, Professor Bahaj from the University of Southampton proposed that the British Council in Japan, Tohoku University, and the University of Southampton should perhaps consider expanding the RENKEI programme with the involvement of the local authorities / city councils from major cities in Japan and the UK.

18 - year - old Karl Pierson was armed with 125 rounds of ammunition and three incendiary devices with the intent to attack people in numerous rooms throughout the school, local authorities said this Tuesday.

Schools can work with local authorities to limit the proliferation of fast food outlets in certain areas, as they can be refused planning consent on health grounds.

The DfE has warned that any school offering 20 hours of lessons per week must be registered with the DfE, local authorities and supervised by Ofsted inspectors.

Combined with this, many schools started to opt out of local authority control.