Sentences with phrase «still local authority schools»

We know that this means 15 secondary schools are still local authority schools and have been rated as less than good for the whole 10 year period in question — all of which is down to the local authority (unless you can explain otherwise).

Not exact matches

The metro mayor works together with leaders of the local authority to create a strategy for the wider area, but local authorities will still be responsible for most public service delivery (such as waste management, schools, recreational facilities and fire services).

And yet top tier local authorities still have the duty to provide sufficient school places and are held responsible for standards — both of which they can not control as more schools opt out of local authority control.

Three PFI schools have been forced to close because of low pupil numbers, but local authorities are still financially tied to the private financiers.

It says that while local authorities created 90,000 school places in 2012 - 13, an analysis based on an online survey of chief finance officers among its members, revealed that a further 130,000 places would still be needed by 2017 - 18.

Whilst the last few years have seen a significant change in the role of the local education authority (LEA), successive governments have still seen fit to ensure the responsibility for school place planning still rests with the local authority.

For schools still linked to a local authority one single membership for that authority means the resources are available for all.

While there are still some options, such as the Priority Schools Building Programme, the Academies Capital Maintenance Fund or even Basic Need funding for Local Authorities, the long and the short of it is that individual schools must make the most of what theSchools Building Programme, the Academies Capital Maintenance Fund or even Basic Need funding for Local Authorities, the long and the short of it is that individual schools must make the most of what theschools must make the most of what they have.

Local authorities serving schools are believed to be most likely to have legacy pooled payrolls still in operation.

EXTERNAL PROVISION Despite having no responsibility for running the payroll for academies in their geographical area (other than by agreement), Local Authorities continue to have responsibility for the community schools in their area and it is likely that there will still be an active team in the council payroll department with specific responsibility for schools.

Alternatively the West Midlands was found to have the least variation between local authorities, but still has some striking differences, with 13 per cent of schools being academies in Cheshire West and Chester compared to 48 per cent in Stoke on Trent.

Opponents tend to complain that the districts divert funding from public schools (forgetting that they are still public) and that they remove control of schools from local oversight, handing them to state authorities and even (gasp) charter school operators.

Ofsted's annual report reveals that of 170 local authority - maintained schools that were languishing at the lowest rating in April last year, when new rules around academy conversion came into force, 65 of which have still not converted to academy status.

Yet, even if local authorities could fund more places in local authority or free schools, they would «still face severe difficulties in the recruitment and retention of special needs teachers», Angliss says.

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.

an arrangement with your local authority or school where they hold the money for you but you still decide how to spend it (sometimes called «notional arrangements»)

«The government will still be left as judge and jury over whether local authorities meet its criteria to run schools,» she said.

In many cases, the local authority will still be the best partner for a school seeking to improve,» he said.

Would Ms Coffey still be supporting the school if these results were from a local authority school?

Despite the government's announcement in July 2017 that there would be enough funding in the system to achieve an increase of at least 0.5 % per pupil for every school, the guidance to local authorities for 2018/19 makes it clear that schools can still experience a reduction in funding of up to 1.5 % per pupil per year.

Many schools still select training and consultancy from a single dominant supplier (often the local authority) or from a folder of assorted fliers that have arrived in the post.

Of the more than 24,000 schools in England, about 5,000 are now academies — and with 85 % of primaries still in local authority control this gives some insight into the scale of the task ahead.

However, there is still much more to do, and I hope that all the Labour Members who are so critical of current educational achievement in their own areas will work positively with their schools and local education authorities to try to achieve that better performance.

If local authorities still had a key role, they would probably select a number of schools where they would offer such a service and develop it according to demand.

The National Safety Commission is one qualification that many schools identify with, yet it still may not have the qualifications that align with your local or state authorities.

For example, where a child of compulsory school age is normally resident in a local authority but is receiving medical treatment elsewhere, it is still the duty of the «home» local authority to arrange suitable education if it would not otherwise be received.