Sentences with phrase «number of local councils»

Nevertheless, a number of local councils of churches and other broad - based religious groups have managed to get a significant airing of news from a religious perspective on their local stations.

In addition, a number of local councils held CDOs with sub-prime exposure.

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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.

• A significant number of Local Authorities have bought Early Years Dad Cards, including Essex County Council, England's second largest local authority, which has bought 128,000 to provide Dad Info to their fathers via 60 children's ceLocal Authorities have bought Early Years Dad Cards, including Essex County Council, England's second largest local authority, which has bought 128,000 to provide Dad Info to their fathers via 60 children's celocal authority, which has bought 128,000 to provide Dad Info to their fathers via 60 children's centres

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.

At the present rate, it will be more than 150 years before there are equal numbers of men and women elected to English local councils

Five years ago, Welsh Labour did very well in the Welsh local elections, increasing the number of council seats they held by around 70 %; by the end of that night they had substantially more councillor in Wales than did the Conservatives, Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats put together.

The Green Party also has one life peer, three Members of the European Parliament, two members of the London Assembly, and a small number of councillors on various local councils in England and Wales.

«Look at the number of Local Governments we have, if we run true federalism, we would not be having 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) and 20 Local Governments.

Andy Sawford of the Local Government Information Unit thinktank said the number of additional councils being gained by Labour was significant.

The Taxpayers» Alliance's report, Council Spending Uncovered, reviews spending by local authorities in all corners of the UK and identifies a number of spending areas which could be reduced.

[148] In the 2008 local elections they gained 25 % of the vote, placing them ahead of Labour and increasing their control by 34 to more than 4,200 council seats — 21 % of the total number of seats.

During his local races, he was the top vote - getter in the town of Yorktown and received the highest ever number of votes cast for a town council member in 2013.

Also on Local government: The number of candidates for the Police and Crime commissioner elections on November 15th is coming through thick and fast and Birmingham City Council pays # 35 million a year in sick pay

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito said today that she would «consider» proposing a law mandating that the local legislature contain a minimum number of women.

Turnout at local elections tends to be very low (below 40 %), and the traction generated by the tree - felling case could have a positive effect in terms of the number of people that will go to the polls to elect one - thirds of Sheffield Council that are elected in this cycle, and the SCRCA mayor.

It is just one of a number of local bills that are intended to empower Montgomery County voters, including a bill that would expand the number of early voting sites, and another that would enable the County to adopt ranked choice voting for County Executive and County Council special elections.

The City Council voted to raise its pay to $ 148,500 this past February, which has left a number of Albany lawmakers eyeing a run for local legislature next year.

Despite a strong showing in some held councils, Liberal Democrats are today reflecting on another bitterly disappointing set of local election results with the number of Lib Dem councillors likely to fall below 3000 for the first time ever.

This is an exciting opportunity for a select number of youth to participate in the newly formed Youth Advisory Council set up to advise the Syracuse Common Council on local legislation and its impact on young people.

People's council tax liabilities depend on which «band» their property is in, the number of council tax payers in the local authority's territory (the council tax base), how much the local authority intends to spend that year and the funding it has been allocated from central Government.

Even if there is majority support, the effective working of the council should require some representation for opposition parties, in sufficient numbers to exercise their proper functions of scrutiny of the way the council's executive governs the local authority.

The 2006 result was one of Labour's worst local election results in London, with its share of the vote (30.1 %), its number of council seats (684) and number of councils (7) all at their lowest levels since 1968.

Beth Newcomer The Legislative Analyst for NYC Council Member Helen Rosenthal (District 6, Upper West Side) encouraged attendees to reach out to their local Council Members and urge them to support the following legislative initiatives: • Possible legislation regarding divestment of the city's pension funds from fossil fuel companies • A bill to require the city to do a carbon footprint analysis of all the products the city procures, and to use that analysis to inform a policy of low - carbon operations • A number of bills to reduce the carbon emissions of city - owned vehicles and improve the sustainability of city buildings • A bill to enhance the city's already - strong idling laws so as to make them easier to enforce Find your Council Member here.

As the local election results come in and Ukip's numbers continue to look remarkable, the rest of us should maybe pause for thought and realise that something rather sobering is afoot, as happened in the 2012 county council elections, only more so.

Report says the herdsmen numbering about 50 invaded two Tiv settlements with guns; one in Ilai outskirt of Mopamuro and the other in Ido - Gbede of Ijumu local government councils at about 4 am on Monday.

While the 19th and 20th Council Districts are held by two Republicans, Dan Halloran and Peter Koo, the local political clubs are small in number and are often a heaven's waiting room of senior citizens jockeying for a free cup of coffee and stale Entenmann's crumb cake.

The number of organisations which can approach phone and internet companies and ask for communications data will be limited, with local councils having to go through a central authority.

The Local Government Chronicle (LGC) has supplied ITV News with its latest projections for local authorities» approach to council tax in the wake of Eric Pickles» funding attack, supporting predictions that a number look set to defy the GovernLocal Government Chronicle (LGC) has supplied ITV News with its latest projections for local authorities» approach to council tax in the wake of Eric Pickles» funding attack, supporting predictions that a number look set to defy the Governlocal authorities» approach to council tax in the wake of Eric Pickles» funding attack, supporting predictions that a number look set to defy the Government.

Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott proposed paying police officers just # 30 per year - before making terrible guesses at the number of seats the party had lost in the local council elections.

The Lib Dem conference in Glasgow today agreed to force senior party figures to undergo the training before they can take up the role, in a bid to increase the number of female candidates for standing for Parliament and local councils.

Boundary changes to the electoral divisions took effect at this election after a review of the county by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England increasing the number of seats on the council from 77 to 78.

[2] Labour said that local businesses were suffering because of the charges and proposed to end the charges and cut the number of councillors, while the Conservatives said the charges enabled them to preserve services and keep council tax down.

New Labour continued the process, cutting the number of Council houses built to a mere 200 - 300 a year in the last decade, despite the number of households on the local authority waiting lists topping 1.8 million.

Portsmouth and Reading Councils are among a number of local authorities which have called for the introduction of an education register to declare home schooled pupils.

PUPIL PLACE PLANNING Graham Olway of West Sussex County Council looks at how local authorities are pursuing a range of building options to meet the increase in pupil numbers

Analysis of Department for Education (DfE) information by the Press Association shows that last year, 80 out of 151 local councils (53 per cent) witnessed a decline in the number of children given their first choice secondary school in comparison to the year before.

The Council brings together experts from education and the media, as well as national and local government, to support the charity in its work to promote increasing the number of free schools.

«Oxfordshire county council is committed to engaging young people in education, employment or training, and the scorecards can only help us to build on the progress we have made in bringing down the number of local young people classed as NEET.»

Although there are still many schools, most commonly called community schools, controlled and receiving funding through the local council, the number of new Free Schools and Academies continues to grow.

The groups also are considering a number of other amendments to the law that would strengthen the power of the 539 local school councils and clarify their...

A spokesperson added: «The numbers for local authority schools do not include the hundreds of inadequate council primaries that closed to become sponsored academies, by their very definition these would include the worst performing schools.

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.

Proposals to academise all schools in what Nicky Morgan calls «unviable» councils will depend on whether a local authority has reached a «tipping point» in the number of schools that it still controls.

Councillor Peter John, of London Councils, tells Marc Ashdown he thinks local authorities will need to be given a bigger role in increasing the number of places.

The growing number of academies outside council control meant increasing numbers of schools had lacked any local oversight until RSCs were appointed in 2014, says the report.

A number of Conservative party representatives in local government have spoken out against the plans which would remove the role of local councils.

The anonymous letter, which was sent to the local council, referred to an alleged plot by hard - line Muslims to seize control of a number of school governing boards in the city.

A total of # 1.3 billion is being granted to local authorities for 2017 to 2018 while the # 300 million top - slice held back from the 2015 to 2017 allocation will be targeted at councils «experiencing significant and unexpected increases in pupil numbers».

Parent, community and school staff members of traditional Local School Councils and parent, community, school staff and advocate members of appointed Local School Councils and Boards of Governors serve a two - year term beginning July 1 in even - numbered years and ending June 30 two years later.