Sentences with phrase «national minimum standards for»

It plans to increase the visibility of community sentences so offenders «pay back»; provide local crime data and online maps; set national minimum standards for neighbourhood policing; and dedicate funding for community safety.

The Department for Education should also improve the supply of quality school leaders into special schools, and replace current national minimum standards for residential special schools with new national quality standards.

The report notes 2016 NAPLAN results show 3.9 per cent of Year 3 students are not meeting national minimum standards for reading and 4.6 per cent of Year 3 students are not meeting the same standards for numeracy.

On this basis it was concluded that the earlier proposed 70 % improvement in Carbon Compliance from 2016, over 2006 levels, was «not deliverable as a national minimum standard for all dwellings».

In 2008, only 63 % of year 5 Indigenous students achieved the national minimum standard for reading compared with 93 % of non-Indigenous students - a gap of 30 %.

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Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining balanced budgets; protecting Canadians from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.

The OISCC is also proposing to amend the National Standard to require Australia's organic certification bodies to test for residues on a minimum of five per cent of their certified operators» products.

First, I released the annual Blue - Chip Ratio piece, showing which teams have met the minimum recruiting standard of national champions for the last decade - plus.

Beyond federal Section 204 requirements, the policy sets nutritional standards for foods outside the National School Lunch Program concerning fat, sodium, sugars, and serving size limits; prohibits certain foods of minimal nutritional value during the school day; requires minimum eating times of at least 15 minutes for breakfast and 20 minutes for lunch; requires there be at least 30 minutes for physical activity per day; and includes minimum data collection and reporting requirements.

The Committee directs the Secretary to issue minimum national standards to address the ongoing issue of shaming school children for unpaid school lunch fees, including standards that protect children from public embarrassment; that require all communications about unpaid school lunch fees be directed at the parent or guardian, not the child; and that schools take additional steps to determine if families falling behind in their school lunch fees are in fact eligible for free or reduced - price school meals.

The American College of Nurse - Midwives and the North American Registry of Midwives recommend that midwives should at minimum meet the standards of midwifery established by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), which include completion of a formal midwifery education program, national certification, and licensure in the local jurisdiction of practice.32, 33 Certified professional midwives (CPMs) may achieve certification through apprenticeship and portfolio evaluation without obtaining a formal midwifery degree; within CPM professional organizations efforts are under way to uniformly adopt ICM standards.33, 34 Oregon has followed this trend; in 2015 licensure became mandatory for attendants at out - of - hospital births.

Nonetheless, the only features of doctoral education that are legally stipulated at the national level by this law are the minimum period of study, the admission standards, and the minimum requirements for the completion of the PhD.

The objective of the National Board Certification for Health & Wellness Coaching (NBC - HWC) is to provide a minimum standard and measure of foundational competencies: the knowledge, tasks and skills essential to the practice of health and wellness coaching.

The majority of urban students in about half the states fail to meet even minimum national standards in mathematics, reading, and science, finds the report, Quality Counts» 98, scheduled for release Jan. 8.

These treaties establish both minimum standards for protecting works under domestic law and for extending protection to the works of other treaty members under the principle of national treatment.

The proportion of students at or below the national minimum standard (darker shading) is considerably greater for lower parental occupation groups than for higher groups.

The additional $ 1.2 billion promised by the Coalition will be delivered using state and territory assessments of the neediest schools, as was recommended by the Gonski review, along with a number of other conditions (such as a standardised Year 1 assessment of literacy, phonics and numeracy against national standards, as well as a minimum standard of literacy and numeracy skills for Year 12 students).

Instruction is aligned with Common Core and national standards, and is provided to students for a minimum of 60 minutes per week

This final rule establishes minimum professional standards for school nutrition personnel who manage and operate the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs.

They found that only nine of the 200 recipes — including eight of the nine written by veterinarians — provided all essential nutrients in concentrations that met the minimum standards established for adult dogs by the Association of American Feed Control Officials, while only five recipes — all written by veterinarians — provided essential nutrients in concentrations that met the National Research Council's Minimum Requirements for adulminimum standards established for adult dogs by the Association of American Feed Control Officials, while only five recipes — all written by veterinarians — provided essential nutrients in concentrations that met the National Research Council's Minimum Requirements for adulMinimum Requirements for adult dogs.

Generally, the standards for a Chihuahua's size are between 4 and 6 pounds (1.8 - 2.7 kg), but there's no minimum, so Chihuahuas as small as 2 or 3 pounds (0.9 - 1.3 kg) are accepted by the national and international clubs, too.

Appliance efficiency standards: The National Appliance Energy Conservation Act of 1987 established minimum efficiency standards for major home appliances, including furnaces, central and room air conditioners, refrigerators, freezers, water heaters, dishwashers, and heat pumps.

Among the tools that can accelerate the changeover are national replacement schemes for consumers, product labelling, HFC import quotas, and minimum energy performance standards.

The main purpose of the Directive is to lay down minimum standards for the definition and content of refugee status in order to guide the national authorities in the application of the Refugee Convention.

[1] Council Directive 2004 / 83 / EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted (OJ 2004 L 304, p. 12, and corrigendum OJ 2005 L 204, p. 24).

These include for example, the right to claim unfair dismissal, to receive statutory sick pay maternity, paternity and parental rights; to be paid the national living or minimum wage depending if they are aged 25 or more; to have working time rights such as not to be forced to work more than 48 hours per week, regular rest breaks and night working health and safety standards; to receive a statement of terms and conditions of employment.

But to come close to the national minimum standard, Bamberger said the state needs to provide funding for 125 more attorneys, which would require an annual budget appropriation of $ 15.5 million.

[9] Council Directive 2011 / 95 / EU of 13 December 2011 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted (recast)(OJ 2011 L 337, pp. 9 - 36).

Article 10 (1)(d) of Council Directive 2004 / 83 / EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third - country nationals or Stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted must be interpreted as meaning that the existence of criminal laws, such as those at issue in each of the cases in the main proceedings, which specifically target homosexuals, supports the finding that those persons must be regarded as forming a particular social group.

[6] Council Directive 2004 / 83 / EC of 29 April 2004 on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted (Official Journal L 304, 30/09/2004 P. 0012 — 0023).

[2] Directive 2004 / 83 / EC on minimum standards for the qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as refugees or as persons who otherwise need international protection and the content of the protection granted [2004] OJ L 304/12 (Qualification Directive).

The concept also raises a quirky and often neglected constitutional issue: are minimum harmonising Directives compatible with the re-regulatory aim of Article 114 TFEU, despite the fact that they allow for varying national standards that go beyond the common floor of the Directive, hence failing to eliminate all obstacles to trade?

Comment: One commenter said that the minimum necessary standard would be impossible to implement with respect to information provided on its standard payment claim, which, it said, was used by pharmacies for concurrent drug utilization review and that was expected to be adopted by HHS as the national pharmacy payment claim.

The Federal Government developed the National Flood Insurance Program's (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS) in 1990 as a program for recognizing and encouraging community flood plain management activities that exceed the minimum NFIP standards.

In addition the United Nations promulgates minimum standards for multi national companies through the Global Compact.

The inspectors working for Ofsted take account of how well the fostering service providers meet the national minimum standards under the five Every Child Matters Outcomes, and how well the service is managed.

NAPLAN scores in proficiency bands that are above the national minimum standard and NAPLAN scores in the top 2 proficiency bands for their year level

Persons primarily responsible for administration of professional standards processes must successfully complete training every four (4) years on professional standards administration meeting the learning objectives and minimum criteria established by the National Association of REALTORS ® from time to time.