Sentences with phrase «middle tier of government»

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Our work on the role of the middle tier culminated in a dissemination event held at the Local Government Association (LGA) offices in London earlier this month, with attendees representing the DfE, LGA, ADCS, ASCL and the local authorities (LAs) involved in the qualitative study (Brighton and Hove, Wigan, Hertfordshire and York).

It warns of the need for co-ordination from this «middle tier», between individual schools and central government, particularly in areas where schools are at risk of underperforming.

Sir David Carter, one of the eight regional schools commissioners who form part of the government's new «middle tier» of accountability for academies, also offered his support to the petitioners.

To date, the commissioners (RSCs), part of the government's new middle tier of accountability for academies, only recommend to ministers which free school projects should go ahead.

The commissioners are part of the government's middle tier of accountability for academies, brought in last September and tasked with tackling underperformance and boosting the number of academy sponsors.

RSCs are part of the government's «middle tier» of accountability for academies, including free schools.

Will the reduced role of local authorities in educational provision and the increasing role of a «middle tier» between schools and government present critical challenges in this respect in the future?

Which reflects a similar two - tier attitude to risk: In the real world, investors remain risk - averse towards the majority of companies / stocks in the developed world, which face a world beset by surplus capacity & high costs, fragile & uncertain economic growth, an intractable welfare class & an over-stretched and disillusioned middle class, and governments over-burdened by massive debt & future entitlements.