Sentences with phrase «local authority support»

Local authority support for the remaining 94 % is entirely discretionary.
It focuses on how kinship carers are coping financially and on the impact of welfare reforms and changes in local authority support.
«No amount of effort to redefine the meaning of «poverty» will make up for the services that the Coalition Government has destroyed — closure of libraries; limits on access to free school meals; all but abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance; tuition fees up; huge reduction in the number of Sure Start centres; cuts to funding for local authority support services.
Tina Allison discusses what schools need to be aware of as they move towards academy transition, and what it means to have responsibility for finances without local authority support.
«Local authorities support schools in dealing with deficits and surpluses and will continue to monitor the levels of reserves within schools.»
Cllr David Borrow, finance spokesman for the County Councils Network, added that cutting the ESG to a point where it is «almost non-existent» in two years» time will «stop local authorities supporting their schools and communities».
He also said a review of difficulties for local authorities supporting maintained schools — after a # 600 million cut in the Education Services Grant — had led to a further # 50 million - a-year fund in that area.
Fewer social workers and education psychologists and less local authority support for hard - to - place students means that schools will struggle to provide support for students with behavioural and emotional difficulties.
How Ofsted inspects local authority support for improving schools.
Local authority support duties that apply to children who are adopted, also apply to children raised by their older brothers and sisters;
It's called Kinship Connected, and helps local authorities support and empower kinship families in their area through independent project worker and peer support.
The government does not yet have a positive vision for the future of smaller schools in the absence of local authority support
The full impact of cuts to education services are yet to be realised but with cuts to local authority support services and libraries many schools are already struggling to afford vital resources such as those for special needs and ethnic minority pupils.
Transitioning schools will face responsibilities far more expansive than in their current form including legislation — meeting the needs of both the Companies and Charities Acts - and managing their finances without local authority support.
Challenges presented by the current reforms to the education system come at a time of overall reform of local authority support and changes to the health service, resulting in a set of challenges that will require careful guidance and measured progress to overcome.
If we accept that this needs to be achieved within a backdrop of a more challenging fiscal environment and a dilution of local authority support, schools and academies will need to assess their capacity to cope with the new - landscape.
Academies are outside of the local authority support structure, and receive no services - like special educational needs support - from councils.
Fragment still further access to local authority support services, such as support for disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs, and weaken local co-ordination of education provision.
Government cuts to local authority funding mean a significant reduction in the support available to schools, while the changes to the high needs funding system do not take account of the value that local authority support can add.
We do not yet have a positive vision for the future of smaller schools in the absence of local authority support
These carers are often facing the unexpected challenge of bringing up children in difficult family circumstances without access to local authority support.
These carers are often facing the unexpected challenge of bringing up children without access to local authority support.
Depending on the arrangement in place, most aren't entitled to any local authority support, and say they struggle to access the help the children need — of children with special needs, a quarter had received no specialist support.
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