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Labour conference: Councils should get academy intervention powers, says Powell

Thursday, October 1, 2015

| CYP Now

Local authorities would be given greater powers to improve school standards under a Labour government, the party's shadow education secretary Lucy Powell has said.

Local authorities told to hold schools to account

News

Thursday, April 12, 2012

| CYP Now

Government must clarify local authority powers to intervene with failing maintained schools and academies to ensure standards are sustained, the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has said.

LGA: Give councils greater school intervention powers

News

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

| CYP Now

Councils should be given greater authority to intervene swiftly in all schools where there are concerns over poor performance and slipping standards, local government leaders have said.

ADCS president urges government to consult councils on free school applications

News

Thursday, July 5, 2012

| CYP Now

Children's services leaders must be consulted on free school applications to prevent them opening in areas where they could make an existing school unviable, the president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) has said.

Ministers set aside concerns over local authority role in education

News

Friday, July 6, 2012

| CYP Now

Ministers will not address concerns over the future role of councils in education until November at the very earliest, a senior government official has revealed.

Councils must be given academy intervention powers, says LGA

News

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

| CYP Now

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on the government to give local authorities the power to tackle poorly performing academies and free schools.

Local authorities prepare for cuts of up to eight per cent next year

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Thursday, December 8, 2011

| CYP Now

Councils are to be hit with spending cuts of up to eight per cent next year, under plans set out in the provisional local government finance settlement.

Charity slams academy exclusion practices

News

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

| CYP Now

Academies have been criticised for having an "alarmingly higher" rate of pupil exclusions than state schools and for failing to reinstate pupils on appeal.

IPPR calls for creation of local school commissioners to prevent more 'cracks in the system'

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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

| CYP Now

Local commissioners should be introduced to oversee new school places, hold academies to account and coordinate area-wide education improvement work, a think-tank has said.

Daily roundup: School population, child obesity, and extremism

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Friday, July 18, 2014

| CYP Now

Numbers of pupils to top eight million by 2023; London mayor launches drive to tackle child obesity; and school extremism report leaked, all in the news today.

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Labour conference: Councils should get academy intervention powers, says Powell

Local authorities told to hold schools to account

LGA: Give councils greater school intervention powers

ADCS president urges government to consult councils on free school applications

Ministers set aside concerns over local authority role in education

Councils must be given academy intervention powers, says LGA

Local authorities prepare for cuts of up to eight per cent next year

Charity slams academy exclusion practices

IPPR calls for creation of local school commissioners to prevent more 'cracks in the system'

Daily roundup: School population, child obesity, and extremism

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