Sentences with phrase «reduced staff numbers»

As a result of the reduced staff numbers the KLC's centralisation of service delivery from the KLC's Broome and Kununurra offices has reduced the KLC's ability to service more remote areas.

In local government cuts have reduced staff numbers to breaking point.

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said Ms May had given MPs an unbalanced account of the report, which did not include the passages on ministerial responsibility or the effect of reduced staff numbers on the UK Border Force.

James Arbuthnot, the defence committee's chairman, said it was «inexplicable» the MoD was reducing staff numbers supporting current operations from 27,500 to 20,000 by 2012 when the current number of workers can not complete the necessary training.

Consolidating our estate on to fewer sites and reducing staff numbers will enable us to deliver efficiencies and provide the most effective service to the country.

It had been claimed that there was a trend in private prisons to increase electronic surveillance of inmates in order to reduce staff numbers.

«The only way that schools can make such significant savings is by reducing staff numbers and, as the PAC has spelled out, this will inevitably lead to larger class sizes, fewer curriculum choices for pupils, less support for vulnerable children - especially those with SEND - increased workloads for staff making it even more difficult to recruit and retain them.

I asked Thomas if the district would consider reducing staff numbers in light of enrollment declines.

Not exact matches

Best Packaging Systems offers higher productivity systems that help reduce the number of operators required for picking / packing and provide a much higher degree of ergonomics which helps retain staff and maintain quality.

Yet it shows that even one in four Conservative councillors think power will shift from local government to the centre during this Parliament, and the only unity between Conservatives and Liberal Democrats at local level is about reducing council staff numbers.

As mentioned already the «Centre for policy studies» has said that the NHSLA has liabilities of some # 16.8 billion, reducing this figure would make huge inroads to the efficiency saving the NHS has to make without compromising patient safety and staff numbers It would be wise for those within the NHS and from the «Centre for policy studies» to look to their own as for the reason why patients look to the law for recompense, before we say that the compensation culture is «ingrained in the national psyche as a warped form of normal behaviour».

On Monday, the mayor's chief of staff, Bill Ryan, reported to the Common Council the number on the SURA payroll has been reduced from 112 a year ago to 95 today.

RFID provides the opportunity to use technology to improve public service and assist staff, whose numbers have been reduced by previous years» budget cuts, in meeting the demand from heavy patron usage of library services;

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer visited Buffalo's Sisters of Charity Hospital Monday, telling reporters and hospital staff the nation must act now to reduce the alarming number of prescription drug - addicted infants.

Additionally, the city will hire 29 new tax auditors to increase audit revenue, and will reduce the number of corrections facilities staff members by 291.

It said staff numbers had been reduced, from 291 to 158 and reduced spending by 15 % so the party was «living within its means».

«Some 22 % of respondents said they also have had to reduce the number of permanent staff members.»

Yet the instruments are installed only in about 1,000 of the nation's 3,141 counties, and budget cuts have forced states to reduce the number of sensors or staff who maintain them and analyze the data.

As we've reported what seems like countless times, numerous reports and studies on postdocs» plight have called for raising their pay to the neighborhood of $ 50,000 and reducing their numbers (while creating more staff scientist positions).

Tornow hopes the extended deadlines — three rather than four over the next 24 months — will also reduce the number of applications that NSF staff members must handle in a given cycle, assuming that the pool of applicants remains relatively stable.

One idea is to reduce the number of young scientists being trained for careers that don't exist, and to instead hire staff scientists to carry out more of the day - to - day lab work that the apprentices now perform.

With our plan we reduced the number of staff needed to clean and maintain the building by two per day.

The advent of digital CCTV and video ‑ over-IP protocols now enable staff in the Alarm Receiving Centre to verify activations remotely through the use of real - time video and audio, drastically reducing the number of false alarms.

The use of CCTV systems is of course an aid to security in the protection of the property and if used correctly can reduce the number of frontline staff required, as the system can be used to patrol the corridors, external perimeter and provide invaluable evidence following an incident.

We have introduced greater transparency in pay and reduced the number of staff eligible for these awards.

Of course, there are also a number of possible unintended consequences — with the new rule potentially forcing businesses to eliminate employee flexibility, downsize staff, or reduce base pay.

The survey, which was conducted by The Key, a support organisation for school leaders, has revealed that more than two - thirds (68 per cent) of schools facing budget cuts across England plan to reduce their number of support staff.

Class sizes are rising, educational opportunities are being reduced and schools are cutting staff numbers.

This potentially reduces the number of senior staff required with capacity shifted to lower - cost roles.

Consequently, between 1989 and 1996, the number of staff positions in the central office was reduced by 44 percent, from 4,881 to 2,739.

This program really helped me to understand how to reduce the number of initiatives down to the most important ones, and how to share this vision with our staff so they could understand their role in the vision.

However, half of this change (15 - 25 %) came from recruiting new staff to grow the size of the school, and another quarter (7 - 12 %) came from reducing the number of supply teachers.

Without relief to funding challenges, programs are being forced to reduce enrichment activities and academic supports, professional development, staff hours, and access as programs decrease the number of students served and risk closing their doors altogether.

State austerity measures resulted in eliminating support staff, reducing the number of new teacher hires, and increasing class sizes.Hussar, W. J., & Bailey, T. M. (2014).

86 per cent of respondents had reduced the hours or numbers of teaching assistants in order to balance their budget for 2017 - 18, while 37 per cent reduced the number or hours of teaching staff.

By June 2017, the staff at Village Elementary will increase academic learning time by reducing the number of office discipline referrals from 360 to less than 30.

Funding pressures will force more schools to reduce individual support for pupils and staff numbers, school business leaders have warned.

The Los Angeles Board of Education approved that district's $ 6.6 billion budget, which will more than double the number of new teachers, increase nurses, counselors, and other support staff, reduce class sizes, and expand parent education efforts, among other investments.

By reducing the number of students who need more intensive support, we can then allocate staff to be more effective and really provide the time and the intensity for students with a [need for] Tier III support.

Under Malloy's approach and policies, cities and towns like Bridgeport, Hartford, Windham and New London are reducing teaching and support staff and dramatically increasing the number of standardized tests the children are forced to take.

Florida's Sexual Health Education Community Outreach Tool Kit provides information, ideas, and strategies that will assist school district staff and community members with reducing the number of teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among youth and improve the health and academic success of students.

Grant recipients use funds to help close the gap between student and staff member ratios, reduce the number of disciplinary referrals in schools, and support other project - specific goals, including: strategies to improve attendance and achievement, counselor and teacher professional development, social skills development, and initiatives that foster community - based organization involvement to provide mental health services.

These statistics provide staff with feedback on shelter programs designed to reduce disease, decrease the length of stay, increase live releases (i.e. adoption and rescues), and decrease the number of shelter intakes.

We don't want to have to cut staff hours or reduce the number of pets we care for and rehome.

In early December 2010, the staff covered a portion of the cat cages on the adoption floor with attractive wraps to reduce the visible cats by 40 % without reducing the number of cats being housed in the shelter.

They do this with only 5 staff members and hundreds of volunteers who are committed to reducing the number of community cats and protecting all animals in Arizona.

As well as delivering much needed connectivity and travel choices, the Airport Line service will reduce the number of car journeys on our roads by encouraging some of the 71 per cent of MAG staff who opt to drive to work to use Metrolink instead.

After going independent in December of last year, a Harmonix spokesperson's told Joystiq that the company will be «restructuring [their] organization to bring it into alignment with [their] current product development plans,» which, unfortunately, «means reducing the number of full - time staff».

there seems to be a preoccupation with reducing business class flights by staff rather than reducing the total number of flights (pp. 3 and 5)

Though possibly well - intentioned, this lawsuit ignores the essential nature of craigslist, demanding that we cease treating our users with trust and respect, and instead impose inappropriate, mistake - prone, and generally counter-productive centralized controls (such as manual review by our staff of the nearly 2 million free housing ads of unlimited length posted each month, a volume of ads greater than that received by all US newspapers combined), controls which would actually be less effective in catching discriminatory ads than what we have in place currently, and which would vastly reduce the number of legitimate non-discriminatory ads that the site could process.