Sentences with phrase «of free school applications»
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«Financial scrutiny of free school applications continues to be carried out by trained DfE staff with advice from financial experts.
Hunt raised concerns over current arrangements for spotting underperformance and demanded a full disclosure of free school applications and financial arrangements.
The British Humanist Association (BHA) is today publishing the names, locations and religious characters of all Free School applications from the «ninth wave», after the Department for Education (DfE) provided the information in response to a Freedom of Information request submitted by the BHA earlier this year.
BHA Education Campaigner Jay Harman said «Faith groups make up over a fifth of all Free School applications in this group and that figure is far too high.
The analysis comes as New Schools Network has successfully argued for a new category of «social need» to be part of the free school application criteria.
Sir David also described a shift in the nature of free school applications, hinting at an increase in bids to open alternative provision (AP) free schools in wave 11, which closed last week.
Analysis by the Labour party of the first ten waves of free school applications shows the proportion of approved applications from parents has declined from 35 per cent of bids in 2011 to 9 per cent last year.
Wave 13 of the free schools applications opened today.
The Government is receiving record numbers of free school applications and we have record numbers of groups on the New Schools Network Development Programme.
Measures include a new wave of free school applications, support to expand good faith schools, and a fresh agreement with the independent schools sector to help improve outcomes for pupils of all backgrounds.
A spokesman said: «We have achieved this while maintaining proper scrutiny of free school applications and any suggestion that the process has been weakened is false.
This is the first wave of free school applications to be considered under a new streamlined «fast - track» scheme introduced last December.