Sentences with phrase «young people board»

Roy Perry, chairman of the children and young people board at the Local Government Association, said ranking councils by school results «disguises the fact that over 60 per cent of secondary schools are now academies, leaving councils powerless to intervene early and build an improvement programme».

David Simmonds, Tory chairman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board which has a representative on the panel, said: «We are concerned that ministers seem to be increasingly disregarding the advice of the independent School Playing Fields Advisory Panel.

Roy Perry, Conservative leader of Hampshire County Council and the LGA's children and young people board chair, said his council has raised concerns with the Department for Education (DfE).

The second half of the session heard from Richard Watts, deputy chair of the Children and Young People board at the Local Government Association (LGA); Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governors Association (NGA); Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT; and Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT).

Richard Watts, chair of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said: «We also urge government to reverse plans to cut # 600m from the education services grant awarded to councils and academies next year.

As the Education and Adoption Bill reaches its final stage in the House of Lords, Cllr Roy Perry, Chairman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said:

However, councillor Roy Perry, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, argued: «This is in a climate where local authority funding suffered major cuts during the last Parliament, and while councils have made tough choices in order to protect children's services, the system is under significant strain.

Roy Perry, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, said: «If they are not willing to expand, then powers to create new schools should be returned to local authorities.»

Richard Watts, chair of the LGA's children and young people board, said: «The government has been clear that councils will have a continuing role in school place planning, school admissions and protecting the needs of the most vulnerable children, including those with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.

Responding to a report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on children and young people's mental health needs, Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: «Action to tackle the crisis in children and young people's mental health is long overdue and this report reinforces the urgent need to support children and families -LSB-...]

David Simmonds, chair of the LGA's children and young people board, said that it was simply not fair that some struggling schools are burdened with a deficit when under council control, while others could become academies and leave town halls with the bill.

Responding to the Government statement that the Education for All Bill, announced in the Queen's Speech, will not be introduced in Parliament, Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: «We are pleased that the Secretary of State is acting on the strong concerns from councils about the Government's planned education reforms.

Richard Watts, chair of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, said: «We are pleased that the Minister has backed the LGA's call for children's improvement funding.

Chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, councillor Richard Watts, commented: «By ignoring local council advice the EFA is allowing academies to effectively choose the children they want to admit.

Councillor Richard Watts, chair of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, said: «The government should provide additional funding to meet this need, otherwise councils may not be able to meet their statutory duties and children with high needs or disabilities could miss out on a mainstream education.

Councillor Richard Watts, chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, commented: «Local authorities take their responsibility to provide home - to - school transport for those in need very seriously, with councils continuously looking at innovative approaches to enable them to provide a coordinated and high quality service for children and their parents.

«It is simply asking too much to expect RSCs to effectively turn around dozens of schools across a huge area,» says Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the LGA's Children and Young People Board.

According to the LGA, councils have traditionally received # 450 million to cover these duties and Richard Watts, chair of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, says this loss of funding «risks the long term work and planning that has been put in place».

Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said: «While councils have a statutory duty to ensure every child has a school place available to them, they find themselves in the difficult position of not being able to ensure schools, including academies, expand.»

Councillor Richard Watts, Chair of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, said: «If all schools are encouraged to become academies at some point, this will have significant financial implications for councils.

In response to Wilshaw's comments, Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said: «Councils are education improvement partners and not a barrier to change.

David Simmonds, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said: «It is not fair that some schools are burdened with a deficit while other schools can walk away and leave that debt behind at the detriment of other schools in the community.

Richard Watts, chair of the LGA's children and young people board, said: «We are told that academies and free schools are subject to more financial scrutiny than council - maintained schools, yet we keep hearing that millions of pounds of taxpayers» money, which has been earmarked to make sure our children get a good education, is disappearing into the back pockets of those in charge.

Commenting on the report, Roy Perry, Chairman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: «Councils remain concerned that Regional Schools Commissioners still lack the capacity and local knowledge to have oversight of such a large, diverse and remote range of schools.

David Simmons, head of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, commented that: «School autonomy is supposed to drive up standards, but in the case of school meals we now have a two - tier system where one type of school can effectively exempt pupils from healthy choices and instead chose to sell fatty and sugary foods.

Responding to the Government statement that the Education for All Bill, announced in the Queen's Speech, will not be introduced in Parliament, Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said:

Responding to a report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on children and young people's mental health needs, Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said:

Nick Forbes, vice-chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, said it was a tribute to councils and schools that this had been achieved in such a short time and with «a lack of funding in some areas».

The chairman of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, David Simmonds, said: «Councils have been pushing their local schools to ensure readiness but have had to rely on schools coming forward with plans for how they will deliver their new duty.

Roy Perry, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, said: «It's vital that we concentrate on the quality of education and a school's ability to deliver the best results for children, rather than on the legal status of a school...

«If they are not willing to expand, then powers to create new schools should be returned to local authorities,» said Roy Perry, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board.

Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said: «Councils know their areas best, and currently work in partnership with head teachers and governors to set local funding formula which allows local needs and priorities to be addressed.

Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said free schools should only be granted in areas in need of places.

We'll have the biggest population in Europe by the end of the century and clearly that's having a lot of pressure on school places,» said David Simmonds, the chairman of the LGA's children and young people board.

But Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said councils already subsidised the cost of school places and free meals.

Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said councils had a proven record in school improvement with more than 80 % of council run schools rated good or outstanding by Ofsted.

David Simmonds, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, said: «For parents, who are far more concerned with the quality of their child's education in the classroom than the legal status of the school, it is the council that they still turn to for advice and support.

And the chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, Councillor David Simmonds, called for «bureaucratic barrier «s which he said had prevented councils from intervening for a long time, «swept away».

David Simmonds, chair of the association's children and young people board, said there was no evidence that turning school into an academy raised standards.

Councillor David Simmonds, Chair of Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: «Many councils already encourage schools to provide a wraparound service outside school hours, including homework clubs and breakfast clubs.

David Simmonds, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, says much bigger primary schools are now going to become «less unusual».

Roy Perry, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said: «Councils are education improvement partners and not a barrier to change.

And David Simmonds, chairman of the Local Government Association's children and young people board, said the Trojan Horse problems showed there was a need for a «high degree of transparency» over who was on governing bodies.

Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, said allowing local authorities to set up trusts would mean that parents worried about an academy could be sure that «the council and its directly elected councillors, who know their local schools and the communities they serve better than anyone else, will be able to step in and help».

Richard Watts, chair of the Local Government Association's Children and Young People Board, said: «Creating an extra 300,000 primary places over recent years is a demonstrable record that councils are doing everything they can to rise to the challenge of ensuring no child goes without a place.

David Simmonds, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, said: «As children move through primary school, securing new secondary places will become a significant issue.

Roy Perry, vice chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, said the association was «very pleased» to receive the funding, which will help to «share and promote good practice and knowledge across councils».

«Councils have a statutory duty to ensure every child has a school place available to them but find themselves in the difficult position of not being able to ensure schools, including academies, expand,» said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board.

Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, questioned whether the commissioners had capacity to boost standards in these academies, let alone take on responsibility for another 13,000 schools.