Sentences with phrase «local councils wanted»

Because governments and local councils wanted to make sure children got a decent start in life, so mothers were given priority for council housing.

If your local council wants to check on your child's education, it can make an «informal enquiry» to make sure your child is getting a suitable education at home.

Not exact matches

Mr Silva said: «I am proposing that we go to the local council and get this man banned from preaching in the town centre as locals want a hassle - free shopping experience.»

Frankly, as an allergen heavy family, I may want to write a check directly to support my local troop, but as a leader I know that it will not help support my local council or the organization as a whole as the cookies do.

«We want to see them learning about important health issues, but I think they'll also figure out that when you get this little bundle of joy, there's a price to pay,» says Ray Carrell, president of Amundsen's local school council and the father of five daughters: three Amundsen alumnae and two current students.

Having done this kind of work myself for many years in San Francisco, I can vouch for how frustrating it can be, and yet, as a parent or guardian who really wants to make a difference in nutrition and health for an enormous number of children, there is really no better opportunity than serving on your local school nutrition parent advisory council.

It «s the same problem that stymied local school councils that wanted to meet in their own schools after classroom hours.

«I want the Conservative party to learn from what local Conservative councils are doing right now, as they are dealing with many of the constraints that we may face very soon.

A survey by South Holland district council found that despite tensions with local people and concerns about their employers, many of the migrants coming to the area - a number which has increased almost tenfold in the past three years - want to stay.

The government wants to ensure that nobody is discouraged from representing their local community as a local councillor and therefore intends to introduce this new exemption so that in the future, travel expenses paid to local councillors, including those to cover the costs of journeys to their council offices, are not subject to income tax or NICs.»

Councils must call a local referendum to get the approval of voters if they want to put bills up by more than 2 per cent, under rules set by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.»

«The Council Tax freeze will severely hamper those authorities which want to support their local communities.

The Onondaga County Agriculture Council wants you to buy local produce.

The government wants councils to promise to improve local areas in return for local residents agreeing to cooperate.

For example, local councils could come together with groups of firms that want to move from the minimum wage to the living wage.

The LGA wants the Government to give councils two pence per litre of existing fuel duty to spend on local roads maintenance.

«What we want to do is go to communities where there are sink estates... and agree with those councils, those local people and make sure tenants get good homes, make sure homeowners get rehoused in new houses, that's exactly what we want.»

Officials said the study, which was done in - house by Council staff, was green - lighted because Mark - Viverito wanted to see how the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's policies would affect the local economy.

Common Council President Van Robinson says he is doubtful a local judge wants to rule on the case, which asks that computer access be restored to councilors, their staff and the city clerk's office.

Of course nobody wants to pay more council tax — nobody wants to pay more of any kind of tax — but it is surely better to be paying more for local services, over which we have closer control and scrutiny, than into a central pot increasingly steered towards penalising disadvantaged Northern cities.

«The public has demonstrated once more that it want good local schools run by democratically accountable local councils.

«If it is about choice for parents and the public, evidence shows that what parents and the public want are good local schools run by local councils, democratically accountable to local communities.

Meeting with the state Business Council last fall, Cuomo said he wanted to use some of the state's $ 5 billion windfall surplus from financial settlements to encourage local governments to share and consolidate services.

Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles will today set out plans to make councils get approval from the public every time they want to impose «excessive» increases in bills.

The pensioner, outraged after spotting the binman operating elsewhere in the area, is demanding # 1,500 in compensation and wants the offender to lose his job with Malvern Hills district council, according to local reports.

Mark Wallace in Local Government: More than 1,000 Town Hall employees are now earning in excess of # 100,000 - and some councils still don't want you to know about it

«Councils pushing up Tax but refusing to sell farms, pubs, shops and golf courses Main What kind of local government do we want?»

He will then chair a «cabinet» of local council leaders, controlling the combined authority and will need to secure their support for much of what he wants to do.

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and City Council Member Margaret Chin want to make the city's land use review process apply to the incoming residential buildings, which would lead to feedback on them from Brewer's office and the local community board, according to Politico.

Franklin Mayor Tom Taylor and members of the city's Common Council said they want the Interstate 94 interchange built but refuse to spend local taxes on the project, which is east of the city's border with Oak Creek.

The plaintiffs, which claimed that they belong to a body known as Inter Party Advisory Council (IPAC), want the court to determine «whether INEC can deregister a party which has fulfilled and satisfied all requirements of registration simply because it fails to win a seat in the Presidential, Governorship, National or State Assembly without considering other elections like the Local Government Chairmanship and Councillors Elections.

The Tories want to change the licensing laws to enable local councils to ban lap - dancing bars.»

The Local Government Association (LGA) wants powers to open new schools in England restored to councils.

Parents across the U.S. want a real, substantial role in all decisions that affect our children's schools, such as the one provided by Chicago's local school council system.

Local authorities want powers to create new schools to be returned to councils, as it is they who are legally responsible for ensuring there are school places for all local chilLocal authorities want powers to create new schools to be returned to councils, as it is they who are legally responsible for ensuring there are school places for all local chillocal children.

Chris Keates, general secretary of the Nasuwt teaching union, said the fact that low number suggested the public wanted good local schools run by democratically accountable local councils.

Asked about union concerns over the separation of free schools from councils» democratic structures, he added: «If unions wanted to set up free schools and build in these accountability processes involving the local council they have got the opportunity to do that.»

David Simmonds of the Local Government Association (LGA) said it showed that «strong local oversight by local authorities is needed to spot warning signs» - with the LGA wanting schools to be accountable to councils rather than a system which was «confusing and fragmented&raLocal Government Association (LGA) said it showed that «strong local oversight by local authorities is needed to spot warning signs» - with the LGA wanting schools to be accountable to councils rather than a system which was «confusing and fragmented&ralocal oversight by local authorities is needed to spot warning signs» - with the LGA wanting schools to be accountable to councils rather than a system which was «confusing and fragmented&ralocal authorities is needed to spot warning signs» - with the LGA wanting schools to be accountable to councils rather than a system which was «confusing and fragmented».

The advisory council includes four parents, some of whom are also listed as governors, but the campaign wants to win the support of more parents and build - up a network of activists who can make the case for change in their local schools.

Ms Williams said she wanted to make sure local councils were «satisfying themselves that levels of reserves that are being held by individual schools are appropriate».

The government wants all English schools to become academies, independent of local councils and funded direct by Whitehall.

«Councils want to intervene more quickly, but decades of giving schools «greater freedom» and «protecting» them from council interference means that local authorities now have very indirect and bureaucratic ways to tackle poor performance,» he said.

The best model for the kind of meaningful, effective parent empowerment that parents actually want is the Chicago local school council.

Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney wants to replace the commission with a local school board that would be appointed by him and approved by the City Council.

Richard Watts, the leader of Islington council and the chair of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said councils are operating «with one hand tied behind their backs», and wants to win back the power to open new schools.

We want Councillors at every single local council in Australia to receive a visit and have a conversation with local Climate Emergency Declaration campaigners.

Our local city council wants to be 100 % renewable energy as we hit 2050.

Their projects range from converting a library in Southwark into a high - profile IT training centre, to an eco-resort in the Maldives, but right now their new turbine is what's on every local council's most wanted list.

With civic elections just around the corner, people may want to know who can run for election, how local governments are elected and the responsibilities of members of a local council.

The Breyer Report wants lawyers to be more active in reporting such problems, and it recommends that: «Circuit councils should ask all courts in the circuit to encourage the formation of committees of local lawyers whose senior members can serve as intermediaries between individual lawyers and the formal complaint process.»