Sentences with phrase «ordered local education authorities»

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Please read our pages on Children Missing Education and School Attendance Orders for more background information on the local authority's duties in law.

However, such powers do not bestow on local authorities the ability to see and question children subject to elective home education in order to establish whether they are receiving a suitable education.

Section 41 of the Act allows the Secretary of State, by order, to publish a list of approved independent special institutions (Independent Special Schools — England and Wales and Special Post-16 institutions) for the purposes of satisfying Section 38 (Preparation of an Education, Health and Care plan by local authorities) of the Act.

The law may not require local authorities to commission a particular education provider in order to discharge their duties, though decisions about education provision should not unnecessarily disrupt a child or young person's education or treatment.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia on Thursday ordered the acting chief of the troubled Hempstead school district to send her monthly progress reports on efforts to turn the system around, declaring that local authorities have not yet «adequately addressed» festering problems.

· Allowing counties an option to modify how they fund state mandated pension contributions · Providing counties more audit authority in the special education preschool program · Improving government efficiency and streamlining state and local legislative operations by removing the need for counties to pursue home rule legislative requests every two years with the state legislature in order to extend current local sales tax authority · Reducing administrative and reporting requirements for counties under Article 6 public health programs · Reforming the Workers Compensation system · Renewing Binding Arbitration, which is scheduled to sunset in June 2013, with a new definition of «ability to pay» for municipalities under fiscal distress, making it subject to the property tax cap (does not apply to NYC) where «ability to pay» will be defined as no more than 2 percent growth in the contract.

Responding to Wilshaw's comments, Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «In order to guarantee that any improvements are sustainable and felt across the city, local school leaders need to be able to rely on the local authority, the DfE [Department for Education] and the Regional Schools Commissioner to back them up.

In order to be able to make an assessment the education is suitable, it would not be unreasonable for the local authority to see the child.

The money will support local authorities to transfer children and young people with SEN statements and learning difficulty assessments to new education, health and care (EHC) plans in an ordered way.

In order for local authorities to meet their duties, medical commissioners should notify them as soon as possible about any need to arrange education, ideally in advance of the hospital placement.

Two - year - old free entitlement From September 2014, two - year - old children adopted from local authority care or who left care under a Special Guardianship (SG) Order or Child Arrangements (CA) Order (formally known as a Residence Order *), will be entitled to 570 hours a year of Government funded early education over no fewer than 38 weeks of the year (which equates to 15 hours per week).